Empoderamento feminino no filme Tieta do Agreste

Abstract

The film Tieta do Agreste, from 1996, produced by Cacá Diegues with a script by João Ubaldo Ribeiro and Antônio Calmon, is based on the literary work of the same name by Jorge Amado (1977). The cinematographic narrative tells the story of an 18-year-old girl who lives her sexual adventures “without the slightest shame” in a city in the interior of Bahia in the 1970s, called Santana do Agreste. Antonieta, better known as Tieta, arouses the interest of men in the region and has sexual relations with several of them. For this behavior considered libertine, Tieta ends up being expelled from her hometown, having to prostitute herself in the cities surrounding Bahia until arriving in São Paulo, where she becomes a “luxury pimp” and earns a fortune. After 25 years, he returns to his place of origin and realizes that nothing has changed, thus promoting the modernization of the village, bringing electric light, attracting the greed of the inhabitants there and his family, including his sister Perpétua. The cinematographic work, following the script of the literary work that inspired it, proposes a discussion about how a woman free from social constraints can, in some way, change the rural daily life of an area dominated by machismo and patriarchalism, giving voice and presence. feminine. The history of Tieta do Agreste is marked by patriarchal relations and gender inequalities. For this reason, this work seeks to discuss how female empowerment was represented in the film Tieta do Agreste, according to the characteristic model of Cinema de Retomada, examining the filmic writing in 1990 of a literary work from the 1970s, in order to understand the diffusion of this narrative through cinema and the impact on Brazilian society in the nineties, by addressing topics considered taboo, such as incest and prostitution.