Salwa Atlas’ Vineyard Gender and Nationalism in the Syrian Community of São Paulo
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This article recovers the intellectual trajectory of the Syrian immigrant Salwa Salama Atlas, who arrived in Brazil in 1914 and, in that same year, created the pioneering women’s magazine Al Carmat. Salwa was an important voice in the Syrian nationalist debate in São Paulo in the early twentieth century. One of the founders of Clube Homs, she wrote for decades about the role of women in Syria, prescribing ideas of behavior and morals. Her experience was nevertheless erased by a historiography that privileged the biographies of men to the detriment of that of women. Drawing on Arabic sources not studied before, this article exposes some of Salwa’s main ideas about the place of women in the nation. It is an important contribution to a historiography that still struggles to incorporate primary sources in Arabic and to challenge hegemonic representations of the Arab community in Brazil. This article also establishes a conversation with the historiography of the Middle East and Arab immigration and with social memory studies.
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