%0 Journal Article %T A MULHER NEGRA E AS RELA ES DE G¨ºNERO EM MENINO DE ENGENHO DE JOS¨¦ LINS DO REGO THE BLACK WOMAN AND GENDER RELATIONS IN MENINO DE ENGENHO BY JOS¨¦ LINS DO REGO %A Z¨¦lia Monteiro Bora %A Marina Rodrigues de Oliveira %J Sign¨®tica %D 2011 %I Universidade Federal de Goi¨¢s %R 10.5216/sig.v23i1.16155 %X Os romances do ciclo da cana-de-a ¨²car, do escritor paraibano Jos¨¦ Lins do Rego (1901-1957) e a sua rela o com a sociedade e a cultura destacam-se enquanto abordagens ficcionais, atrav¨¦s das quais o escritor buscou representar aspectos relevantes para o entendimento das rela es de g¨ºnero no Nordeste, no come o do s¨¦culo vinte. Tal representa o, indiscutivelmente, reflete a perspectiva de um narrador profundamente marcado pelo lugar privilegiado de onde narra e de sua condi o existencial, como o neto de um senhor de engenho. Diante desses aspectos, propomo- nos a analisar brevemente as implica es dessa perspectiva sobre a constru o simb¨®lica da personagem negra representada no romance. Para tanto, ser o utilizados como referenciais cr¨ªticos, al¨¦m do citado romance, os estudos de Zagury (1982), Albuquerque Jr. (1999), Azevedo (1996, 2007), Freyre (2006) Chaguri (2009), Schwarz (2008) e Raboni (2010). The so called sugar cane cycle novels by the Parahyban writer Jose Lins do Rego (1901-197) and its relationship with society and culture constitute themselves as fictional approaches through which the writer sought to represent aspects to the understanding of gender relations in the Northeast of Brazil in the early twentieth century. Such representation, undoubtedly reflects the perspective of a narrator deeply marked by the privileged place from which he narrates and his existential condition, as the son of a plantation owner. Given these aspects, we propose to examine briefly the implications of his perspective on the symbolic construction of the black woman characteres represented in the novel. The following %U http://www.revistas.ufg.br/index.php/sig/article/view/16155