THE RESCUE OF “SELF-WRITING” IN ALINA PAIM’S FICTION

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Resgate, Romance de Autoria Feminina, Historiografia Literária, Literatura Engajada

Abstract

This article presents some reflections on “self-writing” as a strategy for expanding studies on Alina Paim’s work, a female writer from the state of Sergipe, in Brazil, in order to rescue her leadership role in the fight for women’s rights. It emphasizes the formation of female readers of the protagonists of her first novels. As the focus of this paper, we address the strategies of historiographical rescue proposed by Elódia Xavier and the approaches of “self-writing” proposed by Margareth Rago, highlighting how the female reader characters of Estrada da Liberdade (1944) and of Sol do meio-dia (1961) provide clues to the process of engaged writing in the fight for an egalitarian society. We conclude that analyzes such as this one we are making in this article serve as a reliquary for the rescue that has been carried out regarding Alina Paim’s life, literary legacy and critical fortune. She is one of the Northeastern female writers ostracized by Brazilian Literary Canon and by national literary historiography that deserve to be more known and better studied.

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Author Biographies

Luciana Novais Maciel, Faculdade Pio Décimo

Coordenadora do Curso de Licenciatura em Letras Português e Espanhol  da Faculdade Pio Décimo.  Doutoranda em Estudos Literários pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Universidade Federal de Sergipe (PPGL-UFS). Mestre em Literatura pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística e Literatura da Universidade Federal de Alagoas (PPGLL-UFAL), Endereço eletrônico: luemeester@gmail.com. Orcid: https://orcid.org/. Currículo Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2069805544349861

Carlos Magno Gomes, Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Professor Titular de Literatura da Universidade Federal de Sergipe. Mestre e doutor em Literatura pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura da Universidade de Brasília (POSLIT-UnB). Pós-doutorado em Estudos Literários pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Literários da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (POSLIT /UFMG). Pesquisador Produtividade do CNPq. Lider do Grupo de Estudos GELIC/CNPq/UFS.  Endereço eletrônico: calmag@bol.com.br. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9070-9010. Currículo Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9873075052052995

Published

2024-03-08

How to Cite

Maciel, L. N., & Gomes, C. M. (2024). THE RESCUE OF “SELF-WRITING” IN ALINA PAIM’S FICTION. Revista LiteralMENTE, 4(Especial), 97–113. Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/rl/article/view/68914

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DOSSIÊ “ESCRITORAS NORDESTINAS OFUSCADAS PELO CÂNONE LITERÁRIO BRASILEIRO"