``PEDRA DO REINO``: WOMAN IN THE LITERATURE OF ARIANO SUASSUNA (Atena Editora)

Abstract

The novel “Pedra do Reino`` and ``Príncipe do sangue do vai-e-volta”” is written by Ariano Suassuna. It is an extensive, complex, hybrid work that does not fit into limiting classifications. Throughout the narrative there are reports of the way women were portrayed in the history of northeastern society. This novel is a milestone in the history of national literature, being considered one of the most important works of the armorial movement. Suassuna sought to rescue the cultural and folkloric roots of the Brazilian Northeast, valuing popular art and oral tradition. This study seeks to provide an approach to the treatment and position of women in the novel, exposing situations of violence, discrimination, abuse and female empowerment. Thus, it is observed that at that time women were discriminated against, raped and abused, but there were those with empowerment who were references both at the time and even today, of which the same factors of discrimination against women are still observed.