Master's Degree in Languages: Language & Identity and undergraduate student in Law, Federal University of Acre (UFAC). She was Substitute Professor in the area of Literary Theory/Vernacular Literature, working in the courses of Letters at the Rio Branco Campus and at the National Program of Basic Education Teacher Training (PARFOR), at the Tarauacá campus. Graduated in Letters - Portuguese Language, Federal University of Acre (2017). Scientific Initiation Scholarship/CNPq of the Scientific Initiation Scholarship Program (2014-2017), Volunteer of the PET-Letras Group of the Tutorial Education Program of the Federal University of Acre (2015-2017), Intern in the Judiciary Section of Acre (2016-2017) and Researcher at the Nucleus of Linguistic and Literary Studies (NELL) and Amazonian Group of Language Studies (GAEL). Her projects are in the areas of Comparative Literature, Theory of Literature, Literature and Society, Latin American Literature and African-American Literature.
This article seeks a reflection on the trajectory of Maria Firmina dos Reis, a Brazilian literati who, for centuries, was relegated to ignorance. Through a theoretical reflection on gender and race issues in women's writing, depending on the history of women, we will reflect on the transgressions in the writing and other performances of the novelist from Maranhão, who was represented in different media paths. To perform such an analysis, we will appropriate the theoretical postulates of Simone de Beauvoir (2016a, 2016b), Virginia Woolf (2014, 2016), bell hooks (2019) and Djamila Ribeiro (2018), reflecting on how the issue of gender and race cross the trajectory of Maria Firmina dos Reis, which confronts historiographical and literary discourses about national production, in a narrative aesthetic that evokes abolitionism and blackness, in a writing that begins in the second half of the nineteenth century and goes until the first years of the later century.
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