Suffering And Silence In 19th Century Piauí

The Female Representation In Vaqueiro E Visconde, By José Expedito Rêgo

Abstract

The field that surrounds gender is a tenuous link between the political and social because these instances reflect the situation that involves us about questions of how we treat and how we are treated in discussions about male and female, as well as this is reflected in the literary productions that move on this area. Thus, this work aims to analyze the representations of the feminine in the work Vaqueiro e visconde (2009), by José Expedito Rêgo. As a methodology, the presuppositions of the bibliographical qualitative research are used, treating the corpus of the literary text as a primordial element for the investigation about the characters. Concerning to the theoretical contribution, we used the dialogues undertaken by Bourdieu (2017); Espinheira (1984); Schwantes (2006); Zanello (2018) and Zinani (2006), as well as other names that touch on literary theories and criticism in the scope of gender studies and its consequences with feminism. It can be seen, therefore, that the process of inferiority and subordination imposed on the female subjects permeates the entire work, and finds its apex in the character Josefa, who reflects the structuring patriarchal and misogynist regime of nineteenth-century in Piauí.