A representação feminina em Ânsia Eterna, de Júlia Lopes de Almeida

Abstract

The late nineteenth century, although essentially regulated by patriarchal norms, brought women who confronted, with the power of knowledge and words, those who destined them for marginalization and silencing. In this research, we know part of the contribution of Julia Lopes de Almeida, who, early on, entered the world of writing and made this practice her occupation. The defender of an autonomous, economically and intellectually emancipated female subject, she explored in her works the feminine capacity that phallocentric society insisted on denying. In the work Ânsia eterna (2013), however, the author traces female profiles that represent, more markedly, women in the face of the vulnerability and consequences of the female condition in the intertwining: submission, abandonment, abuse, madness, death, the suicide. When we debate aspects related to the tale, the literary genre in which the works is made, we refer to Cortázar (1974), Todorov (2014), Furtado (1980), and others whom relevance is fundamental to the development of this work. For the debate of the developed narratives and thematic approached, we resort to theoreticians that analyze the production of female authorship, such as Eleutério (2005), Telles (2012), Muzart (2003), among others. The analysis made allows us to broaden our gaze to a moment of transition of centuries in which writers and literary critics were in possession and legitimizers of discourse. Reading the society back them through the feminine prism gives us the possibility to see the side of the oppressed ones and to see them represented. Understanding the relationship between women, family and society through the critical, insightful and feminine perspective of Júlia Lopes de Almeida, is to make her the author of a significant contribution to the founding formation of Brazilian Literature and to recognize her as a strong voices of relegated voices to mutism.