Ana Terra: from Core and Nebula to the House and the Street, patriarchal order masks in Érico Veríssimo´s novel

Abstract

This study proposes an analysis of Érico Verissmo´s novel Ana Terra, seeking to identify spaces in the narrative that highlight patriarchal order marks, as seen in studies by Roberto Reis and Roberto DaMatta. These theorists help us clarify the questions of patriarchy, as they discuss the concepts of core and nebula through the social spheres of the house, the street and the other world. This narrative belongs to the Brazilian regionalism of 30, studying the rural world featuring characters holding power and those around them with personalities representing underprivileged or with little social prestige. It is also emphasizes the character Ana Terra as represented in a position of woman inserted in an immoderately sexist context, and along with theorists we try to show the patriarchal system as favoring the man, who maintained control over the woman. As such, some narrative elements warrant the patriarchal system as evident in the social spheres (house, street and other world), showing us how interpersonal relationships were in the place in which they were inserted and through the dichotomy core and nebula mapping out the characters in the structure of the novel.