Do tempo medieval ao contemporâneo : o caminho percorrido pela figura feminina, enquanto escritora e personagem, nos contos de fadas.

Abstract

The present research constitutes an approach to the female characters in fairy tales along the time. We can observe that the new-look shows us new womenwriters, in a essentially male universe, and their contribution to the intellectual and social rights in relation to female writing and the visibility of their books. Considering their own life context, some female characters has been observed over several versions inserted in a space going from the V century to the middle of the XX century and over. After that period, we can observe that the re-readings and re-writings of fairy tales, produced by women writers, start to show the new behavior of the feminine character, far from the old cultural tradition patterned by social male precepts. Because of those reasons, the work had to approach either, though tangentially, the issue of intertextuality, because the traditional fairy tales were rewritten in sight of the social changes related to women free from patriarchal impositions, with the advent of feminism.