Northeastern Leaflets dressed in skirt: the writing of piauiense poetess Ilza Bezerra

Abstract

For a long time, literature was a hegemonically masculine universe, whether from the point of view of production or literary criticism. In Cordel booklets, women also did not appear in the showcase of the production of leaflets, as if this were a poetics of men. Recently, however, women appear producing leaflets and gaining national repercussion. This article intends to discuss the phenomenon of female erasure in the production of Northeastern leaflets, at the same time as it addresses five Cordel booklets by the Piauí writer Maria Ilza Bezerra, who has stood out for writing Cordel in contemporary times, thematizing the story of female protagonists. We will count on the theoretical contributions: Zolin (2009), Lajolo and Zilberman (2011), Del Priore (2004), Perrot (2007) and Branco (1991) to discuss the participation of women in the production and reception of the literary text; Marinho and Pinheiro (2012), and Abreu (1999), to understand the Cordel genre; about female Cordel booklets literature, we will turn to Luyten (2003), Souza (2006), and Melo (2016), among other scholars.