Silenced Xerazades or some ambiguities and resiliences in the feminine: reflections around Falsos Preconceitos, by Nita Clímaco

Abstract

The present work proposes a reading of the novel Falsos preconceitos (1964/1969), by the Portuguese writer based in France Nita Clímaco. With a small but expressive fictional production in the 1960s, the author under study appears on the scene with an ambiguous and, at the same time, bold approach on topics considered taboo for Portuguese society at that time. Remembering, therefore, one of his works can mean an effective path of understanding, not only of a not-so-distant past, but also of the present moment itself. Based on the assumptions Ana Bárbara Martins Pedrosa (2017), Cândido de Azevedo (1997) and Maria Luisa Alvim (1992), who highlight some of the works prohibited over the years of fascist power on the ground Portuguese and the reverberations of censorship scenes about the production of female authorship, the main objective is to reflect on the aforementioned text by Nita Clímaco. Taken together, the writers of this scenario can be understood as well-finished examples of Xerazades (LIMA, 2012), many of them silenced in their respective times, whose effabulations, even today, remain impactfully current and capable of raising questions about the impositions that arise and how to them resist and challenge through the narrative creation bias.