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)