A denúncia no antagonismo masculino em Úrsula de Maria Firmina dos Reis

Abstract

This research work has as main objective to investigate the denunciation and social criticism in the work Ursula by Maria Firmina dos Reis, made through the archetype of pater-familias of the main antagonist, Comendador Fernando P..., a spoken portrait of the villainous Brazilian tyrants in the nineteenth-century reality. It also aims to give birth to Maria Firmina, a brilliant 19th century author who was marginalized for centuries, not receiving the due prestige she deserved by academic society, for being a pioneer in several literary aspects such as: the first black woman to write a novel and for portray and criticize in their works the difficulties experienced by blacks and women. It also intended to take into account the tradition in which Ursula inserted the feminine Gothic. For this purpose, it aligns with the propositions of David Punter (1996) and Fred Botting (1996) about the Gothic, the research carried out by Muzart (1999) on Brazilian literature by female authorship. In addition, this work has been based on the studies of Ana Paula Araújo dos Santos (2017) and Mauricio Cesar Menon (2007) with their research on the feminine aspect of Gothic in Brazil.