Rita baiana: a personagem entre o cietificismo e o determinismo no naturalismo de Aluízio de Azevedo

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the character Rita Baiana, from O Cortiço, by Aluísio Azevedo, aiming to highlight her from the category of determinism and scientism assumed by the literary school Naturalism. The research is characterized by a qualitative, bibliographical basis, highlighting the literary studies about the character. In this sense, we took the studies of Candido (2002) and Bosi (1994), to define the process of construction of the naturalist novel in the nineteenth century, since we also understand the formation of the thesis novel between scientism and determinism. It was also analyzed the space to talk about the literary and social construction of the character Rita Baiana through the ideas of the theorists Candido (2010) and Brait (1987). It was later reflected on what it would be to be a female character in the social context of the nineteenth century and a reading was made of the dilatory and metamorphosed gaze of the character Rita Baiana in the work, using the critical studies of Beauvoir (2016) and Friedan (1971). This way, our study allowed us to observe the literary language of the time from the relation of the social environment, which follows the kinophistic thought of race, social enviroment and moment, in which the life of the character Rita Baiana is determined.