The bibliography of Júlia Maria da Costa in Lunardi

thanatography of female authorship

Abstract

In a society closed to female literature, Júlia Maria da Costa was, in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, a woman, a writer, and an artist. With anguish reports and autobiographical and literary paths, Júlia left us, in poems and letters, her texts, passions, and anxieties narrated from deep bonds that make up this thanatography. Almost forgotten, when we approach female authorship literature, we find in it a dialogue with the patriarchal and oppressive society: Júlia is sometimes revolutionary, sometimes contained in her search for artistic expression. Thus, in the need to retrieve Brazilian authors and to overcome the obstacles imposed on these authorial voices in the canon, we aim to remember Júlia Maria da Costa in a dialogic way - using the thanatographic and biobibliographic process (BAKHTIN, 2018) in Adriana Lunardi’s writing. In her short story book, Vésperas (2002), many women return to personify and inhabit this limited authorial universe. Based on Zahidé Muzart’s (2000; 2001), Beauvoir’s (1970), Woolf’s (2019), and Gagnebin’s (2006) studies, we will outline paths and images that reconstruct a search for freedom, voice, and authorship.