The body, colonialism and the female diaspora in the works Úrsula, by Maria Firmina dos Reis and Desmundo, by Ana Miranda
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https://doi.org/10.5935/2177-6644.20220045Abstract
This article aims to analyze how the female diaspora occurs in the works Úrsula (1975), by Maria Firmina dos Reis and Desmundo (1996), by Ana Miranda, investigating issues such as violence and gender coloniality in the context of colonial Brazil. , starting from the perspectives proposed by the studies of Linda Hutcheon (1991) on historiographical metafiction, Judith Butler (2001) on the issue of the body and María Lugones (2008) on gender coloniality, in order to reflect on the social representation of women within of the historical period in which the works are inserted, aiming to understand the historical process of the female diaspora and violence against women in the Brazilian colonial period.
KEYWORDS: Colonialism. diaspora. Ursula. Desmundo. Body.
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