Tradition and rupture

women in the novel Aurélia, by Maria Benedita Bormann

Abstract

Although they have not been seen throughout history, many women wrote during the 19th century. Therefore, this essay proposes a look at the social role of women based on the novel Aurélia, by Maria Benedita Bormann and about the writer herself, little studied and known nowadays, but who produced a lot in her time, 19th century Brazil. In this way, our gaze is projected on female writing in the 19th century and the representations of women in the novel, with the difference of being women written through the bias of another woman, and the way these characters break with the traditional feminine discourses and stereotypes of 19th century literature. For this purpose, we focused on researchers such as Norma Telles, Zahidé Lupinacci Muzart, Maria Ângela D’Incao, Constância Lima Duarte, Nelly Novaes Coelho, Alfredo Bosi, among others that appear in the final bibliography.