Women in the Orient and the Pacific war. Analysing the female portrait in Macau’s and East Timor’s literature

Abstract

Focusing on the novelistic productions of Luís Cardoso and Rodrigo Leal de Carvalho, this article brings together the literature of Macau and Timor. The aim is to make explicit and to contextualize the representation that both authors make of the female figure in similar warlike environments - spatially and temporally -, as is the case of the War in the Pacific. The exercise is particularly relevant because it contributes (i) to the construction of knowledge about regions and literature in Portuguese; (ii) for the study of somewhat peripheral authors in the academic panorama and (iii) for the explanation of historically, socially and culturally located female imagotypes.