Abstract

This paper examines Rachel de Queiroz’s gender games and literary imagination. Using sources produced at the start of the writer’s career, this article suggests a parallel between the history of literary life and the history of women drawn from analysing conflicts in the Brazilian literary space in the first half of the twentieth century. The objective is to highlight the impact of de Queiroz’s role as an undisciplined woman in the confluences between her trajectory and the architecture of her literary projects in markedly masculine spaces. We problematize the writer’s strategies by reversing roles for women and reinventing free spaces in the area of professionalization and the production of repertoires on the difference between the sexes.

Keywords:
Rachel de Queiroz; history of women; gender; literature