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Silenced Xerazades: the fiction of female authorship and the censorship of the Salazarist New State (1940-1960)

Grant number: 23/06790-5
Support Opportunities:Scholarships abroad - Research
Start date: January 01, 2024
End date: December 31, 2024
Field of knowledge:Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Comparative Literature
Principal Investigator:Jorge Vicente Valentim
Grantee:Jorge Vicente Valentim
Host Investigator: Inocência Luciano dos Santos Mata
Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
Institution abroad: Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal  

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the presence of female writers in the time frame of the 1940s-1960s, during the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal. Based on works by 4 specific authors (Adelaide Félix, Carmen de Figueiredo, Lília da Fonseca e Maria Archer), we intend to question how they maintain a vivid contact with neorealist aesthetics. So, we seek to give visibility to voices not only silenced by the censorship of the time, but also ostracized by literary criticism itself. Original in its conception, this research is based on a close look at the fictional production of female authorship as one of the pillars of resistance movements against the growing fascism of the time. (AU)

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