Women in literary magazines from Minas Gerais: from modernism to neo-avant-gardes

Abstract

From an investigation conducted predominantly in secondary sources, we will present, based on a gender perspective, a preliminary survey of women’s participation in literary magazines in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, from modernism in the 1920s to the first neo-avant-garde manifestations in the late 1950s. According to the criteria established for the construction of this object, works of any kind were taken into account – literary, critical, theoretical, essayistic or journalistic texts, visual works, interviews, testimonials, etc. –, provided they were authored by women, acting either as permanent members of the staff of the magazines or as occasional collaborators. Unfortunately and unsurprisingly, this survey highlights the scarce participation of women, whether as writers or visual artists, in magazines published in Belo Horizonte as well as publications in other cities of the state; both in long-lasting and short-lived periodicals, in all the decades of the 20th century that were contemplated.