Masculinidades e experiências masculinas em Bernardo Guimar？es

this article aims to identify and analyze different aspects of masculinity presented in the literature of bernardo guimar？es, an important 19th century brazilian writer from minas gerais. we shall focus how the author, in his literary work, constructs the gender relations and produces representations about men and women, specially the masculine experiences, without forgetting the feminine ones. we intend, in the same way, to contribute to a broader understanding of the participation of literature in the production of representations and practices of masculinity (and of femininity) in late nineteenth-century brazil.