Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea (Jan 2009)
A ironia como projeto: movimentos da narrativa de Cora Coralina no campo literário brasileiro
Abstract
We try to analyze some parts ofthe trajectory,creative project and public reception of Cora Coralina's narrative pieces(1889-1985) through Pierre Bourdieu's theory, according to hissociology of literature. Cora Coralina had a special trajectory. Woman, old and living in a small Brazilian city called Goiás, she published her first book at age76and brought reflections and questions that marked the Brazilian literary scene. Her style, strategies of creation and themes were unique, not usual, with emphasis on the use of irony. Cora Coralina "shocked" the literary field and she still can be heard asa representativeof the Brazilian's female literature, field where she represents one of the "lines of force".
