ACADEMIA MARANHENSE DE LETRAS: Produção literária e reconhecimento de Escritoras maranhenses

Abstract

This work presents an analysis of the elements that compose the processes of election of members to the Academia Maranhense de Letras - AML, interrogating about which reasons would explain the women's absence in that institution. It takes place a ransom of the representations elaborated for critical literary and for some groups of writers, about the producing of art in western societies, to observe the destined prominence the some writers. With the intention of to observe which elements turned eight women, until the present moment, capable to be chosen for AML, it was analyzed cuttings of life histories collected with some of those writers, and the path of some of them was reconstituted starting from registration in books and newspapers. It is observed that the election process for AML doesn't consider, exclusively, candidates' literary production that intend to compose your group of members. Besides, factors of several inclusions corroborate for the writers' recognition. The small number of women writers is justified for the, still, small participation of women in prominence places in the sections political, juridical, religious, among other, which comes as great importance.