A construção da imagem da mulher adúltera em documentos da Capitania da Bahia

Abstract

From the perspective of philological and lexical studies, the objective is to highlight some of the characteristics that culminated in the construction of the image of the adulterous woman, mainly those who were cloistered in seclusions in the Captaincy of Bahia, based on the analysis of elements of the lexicon present in the selected documents, produced between the 18th and early 19th centuries. The documents analyzed belong to the Overseas Historical Archive, which were cataloged and made available online by the Projeto Resgate Barão do Rio Branco, at the National Digital Library. The study was carried out through philological criticism applied to 05 colonial manuscripts, through which we sought to expand knowledge of the cultural practices of the time, mapping requests to confine wives, due to accusations of adultery, which were made through requests, petitions , letters and letters sent to the Metropolis, explaining the reasons for the requests. The reading, interpretation and development of the semi-diplomatic edition that guided the analysis of the corpus, enabled a systematic observation of characteristics of the lexicon that constructs the image of women, as recorded in the documents, and which will be expressed through a glossary, to arrive at creating a description of the profile of women arrested on charges of adultery. In the transdisciplinary study, theoretical-methodological assumptions were used regarding the female context in colonial Bahia (Algranti, 1993; Priore, 1994), the editing of documents (Cambraia, 2005; Mattos e Silva, 2001; Lose; Souza, 2022; Telles; Lose, 2017), cultural history (Chartier, 2002), and lexicography (Biderman, 1984; Barbosa, 1990; Murakawa, 2010), among others. It is believed that the proposed discussion can contribute to expanding knowledge about the language and cultural practices of the period.