ABSTRACT
This article is based on letters sent between 1946 and 1950 from Germany to the town hall of Blumenau - SC, Brazil. In these letters, senders ask for food, clothes and mediation in order to immigrate, to find relatives and acquaintances or to exchange correspondence with inhabitants. In this text, I discuss women and men’s agency through writing and sending letters and the “gender games” present in the interlocution with the adressee.
Key-words:
letters; autobiographic narratives; agency; gender games; Germany