Abstract:
The present work has as object of study the various stereotypes elaborated about the
image of the northeastern woman in the high Paraíba highlands, in the 1920s and 1930s, of the 20th century.
As a field of analysis were chosen and studied the works of writer Rosilda Cartaxo
(1975-2005), through which we seek to observe the way this author presents and
represents the image of the northeastern country woman, built during this period, since,
Within this theme, the aforementioned author, also from the Northeast and backlands, can be considered
the pioneer in the studies that deal with the construction of the feminine image in our backlands. In this
From this perspective, it is worth highlighting the literature as a source of research in the search for traits that
draw a profile of being female in this scenario. Thus, it can be said that, as far as
Regarding the literature of the period studied, this woman's figure is surrounded by a relationship of
submission to the social space of the male being. In this sense, in the early twentieth century
the representative place of the female image was in the process of transition and
Thus, it was positioned between the “traditional” and the “modern”, the “old” and the “new”, the public and
the private, the forbidden and the permitted. In this route, the northeastern country woman assumes
new roles, rather attributed primarily to the male figure, a fact that makes her be
seen by many authors as a transgressor of good manners. Given the above, this
The objective of this analysis is to discuss the numerous representations of the role of women through
the writer's works and, to this end, one must reflect on the pre-established standards
by a characteristic northeastern society that is vertically traditional and modern.
