THE BRAZILIAN LITERARY CANON AND THE SILENCING OF FEMALE WRITING: A LOOK AT JÚLIA LOPES DE ALMEIDA AND MARIA FIRMINA DOS REIS
Literature; Canon; Representativeness; Women; Feminism; Júlia Lopes de Almeida; Maria Firmina dos Reis.
This project has as it’s central objective the analysis of the issue of representativeness of female writing within the brazilian national literary canon, in order to study and understand the reasons that led to the deletion of several writers from the official registration due to the fact that they are women, based on the historical and social factors that influenced this situation. Taking as a starting point the writers Júlia Lopes de Almeida and Maria Firmina dos Reis, inaugural authors in the literary field, the objective is to rethink the construction of a more representative canon, which does not suppress the great women writers and which creates references for contemporary female literature.