Marianism and compulsory heterosexuality in nonfiction documentary and testimonial narrative on Brazilian women's prisons

• Autores: John Maddox
• Localización: Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana, ISSN 0145-8973, Vol. 48, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 3-20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In so doing, we will wrest literature from Brazilian authors that, according to Regina Dalcastagně, continue to be almost entirely white, male, and middle class and provide representation to an overlooked, important, and growing group of women (18). Fashion and media both created the image of the "modem" woman before World War II and a Catholic backlash to it that cemented women's traditional roles as mothers and homemakers (Besse 3). Regarding imprisoned women, Psychologists Mariana Barcinski, Carine CapraRamos, Joāo Weber, and Tamires Dartona have opened a critical path by focusing on Marianism in prisoner testimonies (89).1 While she does not use the term, Lucia Osana Zolin comments on the continued literary representation of women as domestic and submissive (197, 200, 206). Though there is a tendency toward victimhood in (self-)representations of women prisoners, who are often depicted as powerless in their illegal behavior and the abuses they suffer, the authors also attempt to create a sense of agency in the women and an analysis based not on biological differences between men and women, but on power relations between them (89).