Inovações e repetições das representações femininas em A Intrusa, de Júlia Lopes de Almeida

Abstract

The present research approaches on the analysis of the female characters representations in the novel A Intrusa (The Intruder) 1905, written by Julia Lopes de Almeida, it presents a study about the repetitions and innovations of female plots in a society molded by male knowledge. So, it intends to clarify how the novel‘s female characters present stuck behaviors for living in the midst of fatherhood culture and, at the same time, they show up an offending behavior, infringing or resisting to the male domination. Therefore, it is necessary considering the social and historic culture, which determined the context of this novel‘s production, it means, the beginning of the Twentieth century and the studies about critic and female authoring. It is emphasized the relevance in studying Julia Lopes Almeida‘s works, considering she was silenced by the phallocentric critic in the Brazilian literary scenery, in spite of her success in the epoch as a professional writer, helping to the enrichment of Brazilian literature, considering she presents her politic and critical thoughts through of her characters in order to expose the conservative and limited thoughts about the women. The basement of this research were the theoretical contributions of Nicolau Sevcenko (1999), Alfredo Bosi (1994) and Brito Broca (1975), for the Brazilian novels production contextualization at the beginning of the Twentieth century; Simone de Beauvoir (2016), Virginia Woolf (1928), Showalter (2007), for the studies of female and critical authoring, in addition to the studies of Lucia Zolin (2007), Zahidé Muzart (1999) and Constância Lima Duarte (1997), among others.