Gênero e raça: o contexto de produção de autoria feminina de Jane Austen e Maria Firmina dos Reis

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how the prevailing adversities both in the life of the writer Jane Austen, one of the greatest precursor novelists of English literature in the 19th century, and in the life of Maria Firmina dos Reis, a pioneer in the publication of a novel in Brazil, are present in the literature of both. It is intended to observe how certain obstacles promoted feminist and anti-racist mobilizations in their relevant productions. Inquiries and arguments grounded by Virginia Woolf regarding the conditions of literary production by female authors will be used.