Patriarcals Ways and Missteps in the Novel A Falência, by Júlia Lopes de Almeida: a Possible Feminist Reading
A falência, Women's Writing, Júlia Lopes de Almeida, Literary Rescue, Feminist Criticism.
This MA Thesis aims at identifying which failing is central to the novel A falência (1901), by Júlia Lopes de Almeida, as well as verifying whether other failings are present, and how the female characters react to such failing(s). Júlia Lopes de Almeida is one of the 19th century Brazilian writers who have been neglected by literary criticism as well as by the history of Brazilian literature from mid 20th century onwards. These are women writers who suffer from what has become known and “memorycide”, a notion coined by Constância Lima Duarte (2019) in order to define this kind of erasing. Hence, the work also deals with forgetfulness, and the process of rescuing this writer from Rio de Janeiro. It analyses her novel departing from a feminist and transdisciplinary perspective by weaving history, law and literature using as a theoretical basis the writings of Constância Lima Duarte (2019), Zahidé Muzart (2014), Rita Terezinha Schmidt (2012), Eurídice Figueiredo (2020), Massaud Moisés (2016), Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (2012) e Boris Fausto (2012), among others.