Alba Valdez na imprensa brasileira

Abstract

A research theme that has been growing in the academia is relation to literary productions of Brazilian female authorship, produzed in the nineteenth century  press, intelectual place which was one of the first national step for ensuring the transgression practices of our pioneering writers, among the 19th and 20th centuries. There are, therefore, several names of women writers who are waiting for their places in the memory of the history of Brazilian literature. Thus, this work aims to highlight Alba Valdez, writer and educator from Ceará, engaged in social struggles for women's rights. Her works consist of an extensive publication of texts in periodicals, magazines and almanacs, which need to be found and re-presented by literary historiography. Therefore, this work had a bibliographic methodology, based on theoretical subsidies like Norma Telles (2018), Constância Lima Duarte (2001), Maria do Sameiro Fangueiro (2020), Cecília Prada (2010), and another authors, who give new meaning to the history of women and their writing in the context of female resistance through literature, such as Alba Valdez with her works could challenge the male coercions of her time.