Memória e imagem na escritura de Julia Lopes de Almeida: cenários e retornos

Abstract

The research presented here focuses on reflections and analyses about woman‟s image according to the literary works of Julia Lopes de Almeida. It aimed at recalling woman‟s image from the nineteenth century in transition to the twentieth one, based on the following works: the brides‟ book (1896), Ladies and maidens‟ book (1906) and The intruder (1908). They were written by Julia Lopes de Almeida to understand the present‟s relationship with memory and past, consequently perceive that a new look can print new features to this story. This is a bibliographic research that is supported by authors who treat image, literature, history, memory and fiction, such as Benjamin (1989; 1994), Yates (2007), Ginzburg (1999, 2001), Assmann (2011), Guattari and Rolnik (1986), Needell (1993), Thompson (1998) Gagnebin (2005), Le Goff (1996), White (2001), Burke (1992), Halbwachs (1990) and Stallybrass (2008). This research also had access to the author's personal collection. As an investigation result, we can assure that Julia Lopes narratives provided elements to capture the different images of a woman, which are present on social life regarding the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century: a housewife, a bourgeois woman, a professional woman, a mother and devoted wife, as well as the woman in the convent. It was observed that there is not a single image of woman, but all women, somehow, are free to play her own role although, at the same time, they are trapped in social conventions. It concerns about a woman that has been idealized by the author from her experiences, in interaction of her subjectivities with singularities, and also asa social impersonation of the period