The Medieval Song as Historical Memory of The Social Construction of Female Reflections for Literature Teaching

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate how the social representation of women was historically built to consolidate a stereotypical social memory, sexist and patriarchal female in Christian Eastern society and from a multidisciplinary perspective and critical with theoretical support of sociocognitive proposal of Critical Studies of Speech and literature critics, it is possible to propose discussions on this issue in the medieval literary text teaching and recover the dialogue with social issues that today represent a concern for our society. From the study of a medieval song from Alfonso X (XIII century), we try to present the discursive strategies that reveal the polarized construction of the medieval social representation of a double minority: a woman (gender) and “soldadeira” (occupation). The results of this article to outline the ways in which some concepts produced in the Speech from the Critical Studies can contribute to a dialogical awareness of the student in literary text teaching, point to the need to consider social issues in education, which not only conducive to students perception of the dialogical relations between different times, but also recover the discussion of a historical memory, cultural and social on the subject of women.