Subversão do cotidiano feminino em Doidas e Santas, de Martha Medeiros.

Abstract

This course conclusion work alia interest between Literature and Interculturality, in discussing the history, role and contributions of chronicle literary genre and feminist criticism, in order to study the subversion of women's daily lives of the chronicles of Martha Medeiros in the book Crazy and Holy. The theoretical support involves the study authors such as Antonio Candido (1993), Jorge Sá (2008), Lucia Osana Zolin (2009), Marina Colasanti (2004), among others. The methodological procedures, a study was conducted for the identification and analyzed of three chronicles from Martha Medeiros: "Open marriage"; "The guy across the street"; and the eponymous "Crazy and holy", focusing on the female everyday‘s subversion processes, which are being built and articulated according to the speech given by women of a certain socio-historical context. The results were the deconstruction of these discourses and labels involving women since ancient times, and so in a sudden submersion of women in trying to turn this culture.