Retrato biográfico saindo do senso comum e reescrevendo uma nova história.

Abstract

My work aims at bringing to my TTC a literary and biographical experience that articulates the writers Rachel de Queiroz and Cora Coralina involving scenes and dialogues from Queiroz’s characters, as well as anecdotal poems from the work of Cora Coralina. I needed to know what brought the idea of emancipation in the writing of each woman, why these aspirations turned them into fearless women, heroes in their own right, and draw a testimony of their personal struggle for emancipation and the right to study. When cited in my work, these characters also challenged the foundation of a conservative era. These were difficult times, but these difficulties were not an impediment to discourage these fictional women that inspired equally stubborn real women in their fight for independence. As a theoretical support, especially in the case of literature in its humanizing function, I will use Antonio Candido. For information on literature in the classroom, Rildo Cosson; for gender issues, Simone de Beauvoir and Maria Amélia de Almeida Teles, and for the presentation of the authors studied, the literary criticism of the works of Cora Coralina, Darcy France Denófrio, and my advisor, Eleuda de Carvalho, in an article on Rachel Queiroz for the newspaper O POVO.