Famílias, gêneros e narrativas literárias: identidades e contextos nas obras de Rachel de Queiroz e José Lins do Rêgo

Abstract

The issues involving the debate around gender and family, traditionaly addressed under an extremely categorical bias, have always left gaps for multiple interpretations and context correlations. To think about the values and rules which act at the expense of subject's freedom, controlling bodies and ways of expressing subjectivity, can provide not only a better understanding on the simbolical/ideological conflict between the family and gender diversity, but, above all, generate new practical approach propositions fos the conflicts which are inherent to those concepts. Breaking the etnographic pragmatism that almost always conducts the surveys on family and gender in the university, we propose the utilization of two classics of brazillian literature, published in the firs half of the last century, as analysis instrument of the conflicts which destabilize these notions. "O quinze", published by Raquel de Queiroz in 1930 and "Menino de engenho", published by José Lins do Rego in 1932, are works included in a very meaningful period of brazillian history, a period of great social transformations, a lot of it due to the beginning of the industrialization process and the afirmation of democracy. Therefore, this dissertation work seeks to formulate an analytical reflection about our socialization processes, understanding the institutional atuation as a cohesion and coercion element in behavior, implying in the control of personal subjectivities referencing the bureaucratic statements of the patrimonialism and the patriarchy. We understand that ficcional literature offers the possibility to analyse the gender conflicts and family notions, considering all the complexity in vogue in this relation, under a perspective that not only differs from the etnographical survey, but adds a series of intersections and mmovements beyond the technical rulings of the academy. In a last sense, we desire to present, trough literary contribution, the development of the historical conflicts that pervade the gender and family concepts in the brazillian society, aiming to forge a new sociological research perspective, from the referential provided by