Narcisa Amália

Narcisa Amália de Oliveira Campos (São João da Barra, 3 April 1856 - Rio de Janeiro, 24 June 1924) was a Brazilian poet, professional journalist, and women's rights activist.

Biography

Narcisa Amália was born in São João da Barra in 1856. In addition to several newspapers, she wrote for O Sexo Feminino (1870s), and collaborated in the journal A leitura (Reading; 1894-1896). After publishing her debut book of poetry, the romantic Nebulosas, Amália became engaged in a bitter dispute as it "was attributed to a 'young man' who borrowed her name".[1] She later published Miragem, Nelumbia and O Romance da Mulher que Amou. Driven by strong social sensitivity, she fought against women's oppression. A women's rights activist, her 1892 book A Mulher do Século XIX (Women of the Nineteenth Century), was a call to women to fight for their rights.[2]

Some of her writing was published in a work by Antônio Simões dos Reis.[3] Critical study of her work has been done by Christina Ramalho in Um espelho para Narcisa: Reflexos de uma voz romantica (1999).[4]

Selected works

  • Nebulosas, 1872
  • Miragem
  • Nelumbia
  • O Romance da Mulher que Amou
  • A Mulher do Século XIX

References

  1. ↑ Quinlan 1991, p. 43.
  2. ↑ "Narcisa Amália". Secretaria de Estado de Cultura, Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Hahner 1990, p. 118, 248.
  4. ↑ Pinto 2004, p. 41.
  • Narcisa Amália de Antônio Simões dos Reis, Organização Simões, 1949.
  • Panorama da poesia brasileira de Antônio Soares Amora, Edgard Cavalheiro, 1959, p. 296.
  • Mulher brasileira, Fundação Carlos Chagas, 1981, p. 355.
  • Elas, as pioneiras do Brasil: a memorável saga dessas mulheres de Hebe C Boa-Viagem A Costa, 2005, p. 173.

Bibliography

  • Hahner, June Edith (1990). Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Brazil, 1850-1940. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1051-1.
  • Pinto, Cristina Ferreira (2004). Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-century Brazilian Women's Literature. Purdue University Press. ISBN 978-1-55753-352-4.
  • Quinlan, Susan Canty (1991). The Female Voice in Contemporary Brazilian Narrative: Texte Imprimé. Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-8204-1281-8.
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