Interpreters of brazil: black writers against patriarchalism

Abstract

Through the interpretation of the categories patriarchalism and black woman in the system of Gilberto Freyre, this paper tries to show the representation of the reserved roles to black woman in the Brazilian society and how this role was conditioned by the patriarchal form. In their position as interpreters in Brazil, black women writers have subverted a social role traditionally exercised by men, often illustrious spokesmen of dominant social classes, and deconstructed the dominant representation of the black woman in social thought in the reaffirmation of their standpoint.