A representação da mulher na obra a sombra do patriarca

Abstract

In The Shadow of the Patriarch, Alina Paim emphasizes the power of patriarchy and the oppression of women in the Northeast in the 1930s. This is a provocative novel that features female characters with distinct characteristics but with one thing in common: all Live in the shadow of a patriarch, Ramiro, a man of possessions, who humiliates anyone to always have more. In this work, we seek to reflect on the role of women in Brazilian society in the first half of the twentieth century, establishing relationships between the work and the reality that serves as historical reference. In addition, a panorama of the life of Alina Paim, a writer, unfortunately, still ignored in the field of Brazilian literature, Woman, mother, writer and party militant, Alina Paim, in her work, focuses on women's struggle for self-affirmation In a precarious and adverse social context, bringing to light the contradictions that mark the Brazilian society in the time represented