A palavra escrita como salvação : uma análise das personagens femininas em carta à rainha louca de maria valéria rezende

Abstract

For a long time, women were assigned a subordinate position, and this occurs mainly when speaking Latin American countries, whose colonization originated by the European peoples. This condition come that women had neither a place nor a voice in many fields of society, such as in literature. But it was from the feminist and decolonial movements that women gradually gained voice, and their speeches contributed to the emergence of feminist literary criticism. In literature, the female space is still small, especially when reference is made to writing by women from Paraíba. Among the writers from Paraíba, Maria Valéria Rezende stands out for presenting a disruptive writing, with strong and innovative female characters. Therefore, our object of study was the construction of the female characters Isabel and Blandina in the novel Carta à Rainha Louca, by Maria Valéria Rezende, published in 2019. The objective of this work was to analyze the construction of female characters in the narrative Carta à Rainha Louca, by Maria Valéria Rezende, and its specific objectives were: to investigate the relationship of the result of female characters with the socio-political and economic context described in the work and to analyze the relationship that female characters establish with the written word. The fallowing research is classified as qualitative, as it did not use quantitative resources; bibliographical and documentary, as it originated from a bibliographical survey on patriarchy in relation to feminist criticism and the Latin American decolonial female, in a Brazil-Colony context. The theoretical basis we used was the conceptions of Funck (2016), Schmidt (1998), Mata (2021), Hollanda (2020), Duarte (2003), Duarte (2009), Pietrani (2021) and Silva (2018) who brings important insights into feminist criticism and decolonial feminism, Silveira (2020) and Sant'Ana (2020) who address considerations about female literature in Paraíba and Fausto (1996), Baseggio e Silva (2015) and Darcy Ribeiro ( 1995) which report on how colonial Brazilian society was constituted. The results of the analysis concerning the work showed that characters Isabel and Blandina are credible representations of coloniality, with outcomes of subordination to the patriarchal system. As Isabel is a character of transgression, as she is in the midst of an illiterate and uneducated society, through the power of the written word, she confronts and denounces the laws of colonial patriarchy.