(2022-08-10) Bernardes, Geraldine de Menezes Ribeiro; Barbosa, Cleusa Salvina Ramos Mauricio; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7243836316721979; Malta, Carla Carolina da Silva; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7728611783048332; Santos , Fábio José dos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7569516305566259
Júlia Lopes de Almeida was a 19th century Brazilian writer who produced novels, short stories, chronicles and plays, but she is still not mentioned in the history of Brazilian literature, like some of her contemporaries. This study aims to analyze, from the feminist critique, the character Ruth, daughter of the protagonist couple in the novel A falência, the main work of the carioca writer which was first published in 1901. In the first chapter, I address aspects of the lives of women writers of the twentieth century, in particular, Júlia Lopes de Almeida, the oblivion and rescue of the author’s life and work. In the second chapter, I propose a study of the work from the questions of memory and the analysis of the character Ruth from the perspective of feminist criticism. As a result, it can be observed that the character underwent a considerable transformation after her father’s death, ceasing to be a fanciful and an absent-minded girl to become one of the providers of the new family structure. It is also through the character Ruth that Julia Lopes de Almeida voices her ideas on the relevance of formal education for the women of her time. As a theoretical contribution, I used the studies of Muzart (2014), Duarte (2019), Faedrich (2018), Moises (2012), Candido (2013), Zilberman (2020), Le Goff (2019), among others.