An Evil to Be Repaired: Violence Against Women in the Tales of Gonçalo Fernandes Trancoso

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  • Luís André Nepomuceno Centro Universitário de Patos de Minas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.1.211-228

Keywords:

Portuguese Renaissance, sexual violence, noble ethics, Gonçalo Fernandes Trancoso

Abstract

Although the first book of short-stories in Portuguese literature, Contos e histórias de proveito e exemplo, by Gonçalo Fernandes Trancoso (Lisbon, 1575), approaches light, sometimes amusing narratives, serving for the moral example of catholic readers, two tales stand out because of its explicit violence against women: narratives I 3 and III 6 (according to the modern edition that includes the stories prohibited by the Inquisition in 1585), in which two young and poor girls are kidnaped and raped by noble men. Considering a historical analysis, that evinces the woman not exactly as the subject of violence, but as an object of a household damage (because along the Renaissance she represented an ethic patrimony of the family), this paper aims at showing that, more than stories about violence against women, the selected short-stories represent narratives on how nobility is able to restore its values and prove that, behind the appearance of evil and brutality, there is an essence of what means to be a noble.

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Author Biography

Luís André Nepomuceno, Centro Universitário de Patos de Minas

Luís André Nepomuceo é doutor em Teoria e História Literária pela Unicamp, com pós-doutorado pela mesma instituição. É professor de Literatura Brasileira e Portuguesa no Centro Universitário de Patos de Minas.

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2017-07-03

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Nepomuceno, L. A. (2017). An Evil to Be Repaired: Violence Against Women in the Tales of Gonçalo Fernandes Trancoso. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 27(1), 211–228. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.1.211-228

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Vol. 27 No. 1 (2017): Literatura e Mal

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Dossiê - Literatura e Mal

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