The construction of female characters: a gender issue?

• Grant number: 11/19447-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: May 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Wilton José Marques
• Grantee: Ludmila Giovanna Ribeiro de Mello
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The theme of this project is the historical novel. In this type of narrative, fiction is marked by the art of presenting realistic historical settings and facts which were previously defined by the formality of historians' texts. The historical novel equally provides a forum for presenting women's literature which can be perceived as a different structure and theme from the already known "masculine discourse". Specifically, this work seeks to define how the female history and world are presented through female author and male author, as represented here by Ana Miranda in Amrik (1997) and Luis Antonio de Assis Brasil in Videiras de Cristal (1990).

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MELLO, Ludmila Giovanna Ribeiro de. A construção de personagens femininas: uma questão de autoria? (uma leitura de Videiras de Cristal e Amrik). 2013. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Araraquara Araraquara.