Marginalization of female writing: the trajectory of obstacles faced by writers

Abstract

The present work aims to present a mapping of the difficulties that the writers find to insert themselves in the literary space, that is, in the literary field and in the canon. These difficulties are refracted in literary awards, resulting in a gap in the representation of works written by women, almost never pleaded. Based on that, we carried out a survey on the Awards: Jabuti, Machado de Assis and Camões, in order to verify to what extent works written by men and women are graced by the awards and how the disparity between these representations signals the marginalization of writing by women. The work is based on the theoretical assumptions of Feminist Criticism and Literature of female authorship, with authors as Woolf (2014), Muzart (2011), Bourdieu (1996), Zolin (2015), Xavier (1999), Schmidt (1999), among others.

Keywords

• literatura de autoria feminina. campo literário. cânone. premiações literárias.