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In a decolonial perspective, this article visits two novels, written by Brazilian authors, whose protagonists are also women: Amrik, by Ana Miranda, and Ponciá Vicêncio, by Conceição Evaristo. The notions of epistemological disputes and the ecology of knowledge of Boaventura de Sousa Santos serve as an impetus to identify which knowledge is at stake in the narratives and to understand how they relate, blend or oppose western hegemonic knowledge. This political and literary analysis shows us that the diversity of the world, in its inexhaustible character, does not admit a single adequate epistemology, but demands an ecology of knowledge that encompasses the equally inexhaustible diversity of non-canonical experiences of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rachel de Queiroz and Lygia Fagundes Telles appeared in the Brazilian literature not just because their literary talent, but mainly for being women in a scene predominantly male and for giving voice to female and strong characters in a conservative education context. In their books, both the authors in a certain way have reported the problems of a generation of women who were limited by social values rooted in a patriarchal and Christian culture over the XX century. The parallel drawn here between As três Marias, by Queiroz (1939), and As meninas, by Telles (1973), clarifies this point. Through the comparison between the two texts, we discuss in this article questions as the social role and sexual liberation of women in this system, beyond the female emancipation, the pressure of social conventions and the few life options that women had access especially in the first half of the XX century, debating paradigms under the social diversity and the female perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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