Narcisa Amália

Narcisa Amália de Oliveira Campos (São João da Barra, 3 April 1856 - Rio de Janeiro, 24 June 1924) was a Brazilian poet, professional journalist, and women's rights activist.

Biography

Narcisa Amália was born in São João da Barra in 1856. In addition to several newspapers, she wrote for O Sexo Feminino (1870s), and collaborated in the journal A leitura (Reading; 1894-1896). After publishing her debut book of poetry, the romantic Nebulosas, Amália became engaged in a bitter dispute as it "was attributed to a 'young man' who borrowed her name".^[1] She later published Miragem, Nelumbia and O Romance da Mulher que Amou. Driven by strong social sensitivity, she fought against women's oppression. A women's rights activist, her 1892 book A Mulher do Século XIX (Women of the Nineteenth Century), was a call to women to fight for their rights.^[2]

Some of her writing was published in a work by Antônio Simões dos Reis.^[3] Critical study of her work has been done by Christina Ramalho in Um espelho para Narcisa: Reflexos de uma voz romantica (1999).^[4]

Selected works

• Nebulosas, 1872
• Miragem
• Nelumbia
• O Romance da Mulher que Amou
• A Mulher do Século XIX

References

1. Quinlan 1991, p. 43.
2. "Narcisa Amália". Secretaria de Estado de Cultura, Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
3. Hahner 1990, p. 118, 248.
4. Pinto 2004, p. 41.

• Narcisa Amália de Antônio Simões dos Reis, Organização Simões, 1949.
• Panorama da poesia brasileira de Antônio Soares Amora, Edgard Cavalheiro, 1959, p. 296.
• Mulher brasileira, Fundação Carlos Chagas, 1981, p. 355.
• Elas, as pioneiras do Brasil: a memorável saga dessas mulheres de Hebe C Boa-Viagem A Costa, 2005, p. 173.

Bibliography

• Hahner, June Edith (1990). Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Brazil, 1850-1940. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1051-1.
• Pinto, Cristina Ferreira (2004). Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-century Brazilian Women's Literature. Purdue University Press. ISBN 978-1-55753-352-4.
• Quinlan, Susan Canty (1991). The Female Voice in Contemporary Brazilian Narrative: Texte Imprimé. Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-8204-1281-8.