A representação feminina na ruptura com as marcas da ordem patriarcal em Maria Augusta e Belonísia das obras As três Marias, de Rachel de Queiroz, e Torto arado, de Itamar Vieira Júnior

Abstract

This paper seeks to carry out a literary analysis of the characters Maria Augusta and Belonísia, respectively present in the novels As três Marias (1939), by Rachel de Queiroz, and Torto Arado (2018), by Itamar Vieira Júnior, with the aim of understanding the representation of women within a social context in which there are still remnants of the patriarchal order. With this in mind, the research method used for this study is bibliographical, which includes, in addition to the novels mentioned, the use of theoretical discussions present mainly in A permanência do círculo (1987), by Roberto Reis, Histórias íntimas: sexualidade e erotismo na história do Brasil (2011), by Mary Del Priore, História das mulheres no Brasil (2004), a work organized by Mary Del Priore and Carla Bassanezi Pinsky, Literatura Comparada (2007), by Tânia Franco Carvalhal, and A personagem da ficção (2011) by Antonio Candido. These works contributed to the analysis of the characters Maria Augusta (Guta) and Belonísia, both northeastern women who resist the impositions of a society marked by female submission, seeking independence in a unique way.