Mulheres indígenas na literatura de expressão amazônica: Domingas de Milton Hatoum e Izabel Pimentel de Marcio Souza

Abstract

The choice of the theme was made in the search to understand the experiences of indigenous women, and also seeks to learn more about Amazonian cultures. Indigenous women in the literature of Amazonian Expression: Domingas by Milton Hatoum and Izabel Pimentel de Márcio Souza. The option for studying female representation is justified by the importance of the network of relationships between social actors in the most different spheres: economic, political and cultural. Studies on women are generally valid from two different points of view: the perspective that relates to the history of women and gender studies. Both, the analysis tools have in themselves singularities and possibilities for reflection on a given historical condition, as well as differing in their construction and theoretical structure and, therefore, could not be confused. Consequently, the choice of the topic for study, the way to conduct the work and the option to analyze issues that are addressed in Brazilian society, and how these indigenous characters are represented in the literature and the exclusion process that they suffer, through work slave, prostitution, including mistreatment and prejudice. This study aims to analyze the representations related to these indigenous people, belonging to the literature of Amazonian expression, showing through these warrior women the resistance and the struggle for their freedom. This work aims to understand the experiences of women who are present in the analyzed texts. For these characters’ physical transformation, violence is the only possible rule, but it is also one of the only choices for those who wish to survive in an Amazon, where in addition to the Christian religion, purchasing and economic power dictate the rules. What, in fact, do these two indigenous women differ from each other? However, it is one of the issues for which the research took place and also what they have in common. It is also intended to show society the significant and real advances that women have achieved in recent decades. So too, the resistance struggle along this trajectory, marked by many sufferings.