Authorship by contemporary latin american women

a brief outline of literary productions by brazilian women

Abstract

This paper presents the process of literary creation, criticism and analysis of the narrative production authored by Latin American (in this case, Brazilian) women writers. The objective of the investigation is the contribution to the discussion on the theme from what Hélène Cixous and Nelly Richard define as the «feminization of writing». The studied female authors Eliane Brum, Maria Valeria Rezende, Natalia Borges Polesso, Valesca de Assis and Carla Madeira present writings and practices of writing that comprise «anti–hegemonic practices», whose ideas reflect the writing «in tension with», because they act as narrative spaces that subvert the patriarchal–phallocentric logic.