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- This essay traces the paths taken by women's literary criticism as from the late 1970s, focusing on the period after 1985. Most studies have focused on the nineteenth century, focusing in particular on issues such as the relationship between and the representation of national identity, the generally critical response by women to the national homogenization project and the women's press. There has been much less interest for the twentieth century. The author suggests that this lack of interest would be the result of modernists silencing the female voice, due to the difficult coexistence of modernism with difference and to its carnavalization of the image of women. The essay ends by asking in what direction literary studies on women may develop within the Brazilian context, which is characterized not by declared exclusion but by insidious partial inclusion of the other.
- Este ensaio traça os caminhos percorridos pela crítica literária feminina a partir do final da década de 70, concentrando-se no período após 1985. A maior parte dos estudos se têm centrado sobre o século XIX, tratando em especial de questões como o relacionamento entre a mulher e a representação da identidade nacional, a resposta geralmente crítica por mulheres ao projeto de homogeneização nacional e a imprensa feminina. Muito menor tem sido o interesse pelo século XX. A autora sugere que esta falta de interesse seria resultado do silenciamento da voz feminina pelos modernistas, causado tanto pela difícil convivência do modernismo com a diferença quanto pela sua carnavalização da imagem da mulher. O ensaio termina indagando em que direção os estudos literários sobre a mulher se poderão desenvolver dentro do contexto brasileiro caracterizado não por exclusão declarada, mas por insidiosa inclusão parcial do outro.
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Buarque de Hollanda, Heloísa,
"Parking in a tow-away zone: women's literary studies in Brazil"
(1991).
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/z99b-er29
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BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
...BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature (ISSN: 2526-4885), founded in 1988, publishes scholarly articles on Brazilian literature and in Comparative Literature with a focus on Brazilian literature, as well as book reviews, interviews with writers, English-language translations of Brazilian literature …