O presente trabalho pretende analisar a construção de modelos femininos ideais e as disputas de poder entre homens e mulheres presentes nos textos do Almanaque Literário e Estatístico do Rio Grande do Sul e do Almanaque Popular Brasileiro, ambos editados em Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, importante centro de cultura do Estado à época, num período de intensas transformações sociais: o limiar do século XIX para século XX. Os almanaques, originários da Europa Medieval, estão presentes no Brasil desde o Império, tendo atingido seu auge de expressão justamente no período ora analisado, graças ao florescimento da imprensa e da indústria editorial. São publicações de caráter plural, cujas páginas dividem seu espaço entre tradição e modernidade, senso-comum e ciência. Os dois almanaques analisados tiveram intensa circulação e importância em todo estado do Rio Grande do Sul, sendo reconhecidos também nacionalmente e internacionalmente. Nos almanaques, é possível perceber a construção e divulgação de modelos femininos desejados para a sociedade da época, bem como modelos que deveriam ser repudiados. Uma grande quantidade de discursos disciplinadores das relações de gênero foi encontrada nas páginas dos dois almanaques. Também foi possível evidenciar uma significativa presença feminina atuando como escritoras e colaboradoras, mulheres que, igualmente, manifestaram-se sobre as relações entre homens e mulheres e sobre papel das mulheres na sociedade. Desta forma, revelaram-se os almanaques um espaço tanto de fixação de condutas de gênero, bem como de disputas de poder. Através de textos, poesias, crônicas e anedotas foi possível verificar o que os almanaques trazem com relação às relações de gênero vivenciadas na virada do século XIX e início do século XX e, ainda, (re) conhecer a trajetória de muitas das colaboradoras dos almanaques, enquanto figuras atuantes na luta pela inclusão social das mulheres na sociedade. / The present study wants to analyze the construction of ideal female models and power disputes between genders presented in the texts of Literary and Statistical Almanac from Rio Grande do Sul and Brazilian Popular Almanac, both published in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, an important center of culture in the State at that time, in a period of intense social transformations: the threshold of the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The almanacs, originating in Medieval Europe, are present in Brazil since the Empire Time, reaching its height of expression in the period now analyzed, thanks to the flourishing of the press and publishing industry. In these publications there are a plural character, whose pages divide this space between tradition and modernity, common sense and science. Both almanacs analyzed had intense circulation and importance throughout the state of Rio Grande do Sul, also being recognized nationally and internationally. In the almanacs, it is possible to see the construction and dissemination of female models wanted for the society of that age as well as models that should be repudiated. A large amount of disciplinary discourses of gender relations was found in the pages of the two almanacs. It was also possible to show a significant presence of women working as writers and collaborators, women also showed up on the relationship between gender and the role of women in society. By this way, the almanacs proved both a fixing space of gender conduct as well as power struggles between genders. Through texts, poems, stories and anecdotes it was possible to understand what the almanacs bring related with respect to gender relations experienced at the turn of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and also (re) learn the history of many collaborators from the almanacs while active figure in the fight for women social inclusion in the society.

O presente trabalho pretende analisar a construção de modelos femininos ideais e as disputas de poder entre homens e mulheres presentes nos textos do Almanaque Literário e Estatístico do Rio Grande do Sul e do Almanaque Popular Brasileiro, ambos editados em Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, importante centro de cultura do Estado à época, num período de intensas transformações sociais: o limiar do século XIX para século XX. Os almanaques, originários da Europa Medieval, estão presentes no Brasil desde o Império, tendo atingido seu auge de expressão justamente no período ora analisado, graças ao florescimento da imprensa e da indústria editorial. São publicações de caráter plural, cujas páginas dividem seu espaço entre tradição e modernidade, senso-comum e ciência. Os dois almanaques analisados tiveram intensa circulação e importância em todo estado do Rio Grande do Sul, sendo reconhecidos também nacionalmente e internacionalmente. Nos almanaques, é possível perceber a construção e divulgação de modelos femininos desejados para a sociedade da época, bem como modelos que deveriam ser repudiados. Uma grande quantidade de discursos disciplinadores das relações de gênero foi encontrada nas páginas dos dois almanaques. Também foi possível evidenciar uma significativa presença feminina atuando como escritoras e colaboradoras, mulheres que, igualmente, manifestaram-se sobre as relações entre homens e mulheres e sobre papel das mulheres na sociedade. Desta forma, revelaram-se os almanaques um espaço tanto de fixação de condutas de gênero, bem como de disputas de poder. Através de textos, poesias, crônicas e anedotas foi possível verificar o que os almanaques trazem com relação às relações de gênero vivenciadas na virada do século XIX e início do século XX e, ainda, (re) conhecer a trajetória de muitas das colaboradoras dos almanaques, enquanto figuras atuantes na luta pela inclusão social das mulheres na sociedade. / The present study wants to analyze the construction of ideal female models and power disputes between genders presented in the texts of Literary and Statistical Almanac from Rio Grande do Sul and Brazilian Popular Almanac, both published in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, an important center of culture in the State at that time, in a period of intense social transformations: the threshold of the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The almanacs, originating in Medieval Europe, are present in Brazil since the Empire Time, reaching its height of expression in the period now analyzed, thanks to the flourishing of the press and publishing industry. In these publications there are a plural character, whose pages divide this space between tradition and modernity, common sense and science. Both almanacs analyzed had intense circulation and importance throughout the state of Rio Grande do Sul, also being recognized nationally and internationally. In the almanacs, it is possible to see the construction and dissemination of female models wanted for the society of that age as well as models that should be repudiated. A large amount of disciplinary discourses of gender relations was found in the pages of the two almanacs. It was also possible to show a significant presence of women working as writers and collaborators, women also showed up on the relationship between gender and the role of women in society. By this way, the almanacs proved both a fixing space of gender conduct as well as power struggles between genders. Through texts, poems, stories and anecdotes it was possible to understand what the almanacs bring related with respect to gender relations experienced at the turn of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and also (re) learn the history of many collaborators from the almanacs while active figure in the fight for women social inclusion in the society.

<p>This dissertation examines Charles Darwin’s major texts together with literary works by turn-of the-century American women writers—Nella Larsen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Kate Chopin—in order to trace how evolutionary theory shaped transatlantic cultural ideas of race, particularly black identity, and gender. I focus on the concept of “descent” as the overarching theme organizing categories of the human in evolutionary terms. My perspective and methods—examining race and gender from a black feminist perspective that draws on biopolitics theory, as well as using close reading, affect theory, and attention to narrative in my textual analysis—comprise my argument’s framework. By bringing these perspectives and methods together in my attention to the interplay between Darwinian discourse and American literature, I shed new light on the turn-of-the-century transatlantic exchange between science and culture. Throughout this dissertation, I argue that descent constitutes a central concept and point of tension in evolutionary theory’s inscription of life’s development. I also show how themes of human-animal kinship, the Western binary of rationality and materiality, and reproduction and maternity circulated within this discourse. I contribute to scholarly work relating evolutionist discourse to literature by focusing on American literature: in the context of turn-of-the-century American anxieties about racial and gender hierarchies, the evolutionist paradigm’s configurations of human difference were especially consequential. Moreover, Larsen, Gilman, and Chopin offer responses that reveal this hierarchy’s varied effects on racialized and gendered bodies. I thus demonstrate the significance of examining Darwinian discourse alongside American literature by women writers, an association in need of deeper scholarly attention, especially from a feminist, theoretical perspective. </p><p>This dissertation begins with my application of literary analysis and close reading to Darwin’s major texts in order to uncover how they formed a suggestive foundation for late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century ideologies of race and gender. I use this analysis as the background for my investigation of Larsen’s, Gilman’s, and Chopin’s literary texts. In Chapter 1, I conduct a close reading of Darwin’s articulation of natural selection in <i>The Origin of Species</i>and focus on how Darwin’s syntactical and narrative structure imply evolution as an agential force aimed at linear progress. In Chapter 2, I analyze Darwin’s articulation of the development of race and gender differences in <i>The Descent of Man</i>, as well as Thomas Henry Huxley’s <i>Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature</i>, and argue that Darwin’s and Huxley’s accounts suggest how anxiety over animal-human kinship was alleviated through structuring nonwhite races and women as less developed and hence inferior. In Chapter 3, I argue that Larsen’s novel <i>Quicksand </i>interrogates and complicates aesthetic primitivism and biopolitical racism and sexism, both rooted in evolutionist discourses. Finally, in Chapter 4, I focus on Gilman’s utopian novel <i>Herland</i>and select short stories by Chopin. While Gilman unambiguously advocates for a desexualized white matriarchy, Chopin’s stories waver between support for, and critique of, racial hierarchy. Reading these authors together against the backdrop of white masculine evolutionist theory reveals how this theory roots women as materially bound reproducers of racial hierarchy.</p>

<p><i>She Will Be: Literary Authorship and the Coming Woman in the Postbellum United States </i>argues that postbellum women writers deployed the figure of the Coming Woman, an archetype for the nation’s improved female future, to articulate expanded sociopolitical opportunities for women, interrogate prevailing standards of literary art, and validate their own literary pursuits. During the final decades of the nineteenth century, the American reading public became increasingly fascinated with identifying who the Coming Woman would be, what qualities she would possess, and how her arrival would alter the nation’s future. Such questions flooded US print culture in the decades between 1865 and 1900, demonstrating that the Coming Woman not only occupied a space between the antebellum True Woman and fin de siècle New Woman but also that she was a major feminine archetype in her own right.</p><p><br></p><p>Even so, existing scholarship on the Coming Woman tends either to identify the Coming Woman anachronistically as an early iteration of the New Woman or, when naming her directly, to overlook her complex function as both a harbinger and manifestation of manifold sociopolitical changes. These limited examinations elide the Coming Woman’s ubiquitous influence on postbellum literary culture, particularly in terms of the complex links Susan Coultrap-McQuin and Lawrence W. Levine have traced between middlebrow culture and postbellum national identity. <i>She Will Be</i> builds on recent scholarship by demonstrating how the American Coming Woman helped reshape notions of women’s literary authorship, modernity, and national identity in the late nineteenth century. By examining her literary life through four key middlebrow genres (<i>Bildungsroman</i>, sentimentality, utopianism, and regionalism), <i>She Will Be</i> reveals how female authors used the Coming Woman figure to imagine—and, indeed, write into being—an expanded vision for the US’s female future.</p>

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Consacré aux Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière (1671-1674) de Madame de Villedieu, ce mémoire étudie la gaieté, omniprésente et protéiforme, de l’œuvre. La gaieté des Mémoires est souvent troublante : tout en répondant à l’impératif incontournable de divertir les lecteur.trice.s, elle révèle la violence du monde et des hommes. Une étude de sa poétique permet alors d’éclairer la perspective singulière et inattendue qui traverse ce roman-mémoires. Le premier chapitre s’attache à analyser certains éléments de la structure narrative de l’œuvre qui, tout en provoquant l’agrément du lectorat, sont aussi porteurs d’un point de vue critique sur l’Histoire, et particulièrement sur l’histoire des femmes. Le deuxième chapitre consiste en une exploration de l’hybridité générique des Mémoires. Ludiques et polémiques, ces nombreuses transgressions à l’égard des codes scripturaires typiquement masculins remettent en question à la fois l’ordre de l’écrit, et les valeurs qui les structurent. La méthode employée est inspirée par l’analyse du discours, et nourrie par plusieurs travaux portant sur la poétique des genres. Finalement, le troisième chapitre examine la gaieté d’Henriette-Sylvie, en tant que narratrice et personnage, à travers le prisme de la rhétorique. Si les mots d’esprit et les réparties ironiques de la narratrice-personnage permettent d’évoquer plus librement plusieurs réalités contraires aux normes de la bienséance, la gaieté inébranlable d’Henriette-Sylvie témoigne aussi de l’obligation qui pèse sur elle de plaire et de divertir. La gaieté est alors envisagée comme faisant partie d’une stratégie énonciative visant à séduire et convaincre. Pour éclairer le contexte, à la fois historique, polémique et générique avec lequel dialogue le roman, ce mémoire s’appuie également sur les travaux ayant pour objet le rire et le comique à l’âge classique, la Querelle des femmes dans l’espace social et littéraire, et le pyrrhonisme des libertins. / Dedicated to the Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière (1671-1674) by Madame de Villedieu, this thesis studies the omnipresent and protean gaiety of the work. The gaiety of the Mémoires is often troubling: while it responds to the inescapable imperative of entertaining the reader, it reveals the violence of the world and of men. A study of its poetics allows us to shed light on the singular and unexpected perspective that runs through this novel-memoir. The first chapter analyzes certain elements of the narrative structure of the work which, while provoking the pleasure of the reader, also carry a critical point of view on History, and particularly on the history of women. The second chapter consists of an exploration of the generic hybridity of the Memoirs. Playful and polemical, these various transgressions of typically male scriptural codes challenge both the order of the written word and the values that structure it. The method used is inspired by discourse analysis, and informed by several works on the poetics of literary forms. Finally, the third chapter examines Henriette-Sylvie’s gaiety, as narrator and character, through the lens of rhetoric. While the narrator-character’s witty and ironic repartee allows for the freer evocation of many realities contrary to the norms of decency, Henriette-Sylvie’s unwavering cheerfulness also speaks to her obligation to please and entertain. Cheerfulness is then seen as part of an enunciative strategy to seduce and convince. In order to shed light on the historical, polemical and generic context with which the novel is in dialogue, this work also relies on works dealing with laughter and comedy in the classical age, the Querelle des femmes in the social and literary space, and the Pyrrhonism of the libertines.

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<p dir="ltr">This dissertation is a Black feminist qualitative inquiry of the interconnections between Black women, literary activity, community, activism, and restoration and healing. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Black Women’s Literary Renaissance and the Black feminist movement converged to create one of the richest periods in Black women’s history. Black women came together in community, through the text, and through various literary spaces–often despite or even because of their differences–to build an archive that articulates a multivocal Black women’s standpoint which many believed to be monotonously singular. During this period, for example, Black women writer-activists wrote more novels, plays, and poetry in these two decades than in any period prior while also establishing new literary traditions. These traditions included the recovery of previously published yet out of print Black women writers, the development of the Black Women Anthology era, the creation of Black women writer-activist collectives, the founding of bookstores, as well as the development of Black Women’s Studies and Black feminist literary criticism in the academy. In the dissertation, these traditions are intrinsically tied to the articulation and definition of the theoretical concept of literary kinship. Conceptually, relationally, and materially literary kinship is the connection generated by the intergenerational literary activity between Black women and girls. In the dissertation, I use literary activity in slightly different ways including to denote community-engaged oral practices, publication, relationships defined around literary sites, and the practice of reading. Literary kinship provides access to community based on and derived from a connection to the literary that is often marked by intergenerational activity. I argue that Black women writer-activists during the period of the BWLR articulate and define literary kinship as a practice of communal restoration and healing for individuals and the collective.</p><p dir="ltr">Literary kinship is explored in four interrelated, yet distinct ways in the dissertation. In chapter two, literary kinship is located in and operationalized through Black women’s literary kinship “networks” founded during the Black Women’s Literary Renaissance. In chapter three, the focus is on the Black Women’s Anthology era that begins in 1970 and becomes a pipeline for the development of the interdisciplinary field of Black Women’s Studies in the 1980s. The fourth and fifth chapters shift the impact of the Black Women’s Literary Renaissance to the 21st century and examines how literary kinship is rearticulated or re-visioned a generation later. The fourth chapter, in this vein, uses autoethnography and literary analysis to illuminate the interconnections between Black girlhood, geography, and my concept of literary kinship. The chapter explores my experience of literary kinship at the kitchen table, in public libraries, and in secondary and higher education as transformative opportunities that fostered my love for reading, engaging in literary community, and developing reading as a restorative and healing practice. In the final chapter, the rapid reemergence of Black women booksellers and their bookstores in the last five years (2018-2023) become integral to a contemporary rearticulation of literary kinship.</p><p dir="ltr">The Black Women’s Literary Renaissance is a significant period of literary output by Black women writer-activists that has had intergenerational impact in the lives of Black women. During the Renaissance, Black women writer-activists were catalysts for critical and necessary literary interventions, strategies, and methods that supported their sociopolitical activism, the development of a rich Black feminist and literary archive, and that manifested community functional practices of restoration and healing. Black women’s articulation, definition, and utilization of literary kinship in the 20th and 21st centuries has supported their literary labors as activists, as intellectuals, and as community members, and is therefore a practice of community restoration and healing.</p>