DAMAS NEGRAS : DE ISAURA A RITA BAIANA E BERTOLEZA A CONSTRUÇÃO DA PERSONAGEM FEMININA.

Abstract

This paper presents a discussion on the image of black women present in Brazilian literary works. For analysis of objects have been selected works The Slave Isaura - written by Bernardo Guimarães and The Tenement which is a novel written by the writer Aluísio Azevedo. The dissertation aimed to analyze the creation of imagery of black women in Brazilian literature, from the works mentioned. Specifically , we sought to investigate the theoretical conceptions of the imaginary and the image of women in the construction of Brazilian Literature ; analyze in such black woman image construction of the works is represented by the characters ; identify in the works featuring the black female characters ; demonstrate the full of meanings language if there are oppression and exclusion marks suffered by Afro-descendant population and the works studied manifest forms of protest and denunciation by their black female characters , with the hypothesis of the imaginary black woman as constructed by cultural issues , social , which create the image of this woman by inserting a group marked by racial prejudice and oppression . The image was constructed on the black results from the needs of each historical setting and to identify the construction of this stereotype , it has made the necessary scoring discursive formations that circled each time .