Plural malehood: the construction of identities of gender in literary compositions

Authors

  • Pedro Vilarinho

Abstract

This study analyses the production of a group of piauiense writers that used, during the XX century, their writing as an strategy of action, in order to provide changes in the identities of gender. The goal of these writers was to make people change traditional practice and the rural mentality, based on a close relationship with the graphic culture, with the urban sociability and with the educational system, patterns that should redefine male identities.

Keywords: identities, malehood, writers.

Published

2021-06-09

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Articles