About space (and) woman in A sucessora, by Carolina Nabuco

Abstract

Concerned to the fields of rescue and reviewing, literary criticism of women literature has built such a fascinating odyssey: the archeological work of giving visibility to writers and works that have stridden across our literary history. As a result of that, the study of a delegitimized corpus composed by works of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth one is currently covered by one more aspect: to ensure that women writers and theirs works can be (re)read or can be, for the first time, an object of reading. Thus, the aim of this study, included into the plethora of works aimed at building a feminine memory in our Letters, is to reflect, through the observation of some categories such as space and character, upon the women presence in the novel A sucessora (1940) written by the Brazilian writer Carolina Nabuco, one of the many writers who were forgotten in our literary history, emphasizing, then, the place of the woman in Brazilian society during the first three decades of the twentieth century.