Representações do Papel da Mulher no Seringal nas Narrativas Terra Caída e “Maibi”.

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the representations of women´s role in the novel Terra Caída in dialogue with the short story "Maibi" and how gender issues were socially constructed from the point of view of culture. Specifically, we analyze the relationship of human being in contact with the rubber hostile environment, demystifying the construction of the Amazon "invented" by the colonizers. We observe how the narrators transpose in the historical and social questions, giving focus to the gender as social construction. We discuss women´s roles through a new focus, seeking to emphasize the female protagonism and to verify how these roles were built by the narrator´s discourse. As theoretical basis, we had as support Almeida (2008); Benchimol (2009); Bourdieu (2012); Butler (2016); Costa (2013); Gondim (2007); Spivak (2010); Stuart Hall (2014); Woolf (2014) and Wright Mills (1969). When we embarked on the discussion about the representations of women´s role in the context of rubber, we focused on the analysis of female characters such as Rosinha, Laura and Anália in Potyguara's work, and the character Maibi in "Maibi", both describe the rubber period in the Amazon in the mid-nineteenth century. The research sought to unveil the patriarchal, sexist and the socially constructed oppressive heritage rebuilt in the family environment and propagated through generations, which caused women invisibility besides preventing their rights. Thus, we say that women, regardless the hostility of the rubber environment, has taken actions to demonstrate empowerment and confrontation against the patriarchal order.