Banca de DEFESA: ANDRESSA FREITAS DOS SANTOS

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ANDRESSA FREITAS DOS SANTOS
DATE: 05/12/2022
TIME: 14:00
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KEY WORDS:

Lovecraft; New England; Place; Literary Cartography; Xenophobia.

PAGES: 148
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

Monsters and fantastic creatures that escape from human understanding are remarkableliterary elements in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s (1890 - 1937) narratives. He is also knownas   the   author   of   the   uncanny   fiction   genre.   His   fantasies   writings   point   up   to   areconstruction of American identity in the first decades of the 20th century. To cause fearand disgust with distorted views about the Other - non-Teutonic peoples - whether throughletters, newspaper articles or in the monsters in fictional narratives, Lovecraft reveals axenophobic feeling, of a racist nature, against the migratory flow of diverse peoples whocame to inhabit New England - a region idealized by the author as the holder of the trueessence of the United States. Through the geographical concepts of place and landscape offear, Yi-Fu  Tuan  (1983;  2005)  demonstrates  how  individuals  appropriate and  recreatespaces from experience. In addition to the method of literary cartography by Robert Tally(2020), it demonstrates how the writer, just like the cartographer, uses several imaginarymechanisms, based on the perceptions of his own experience, to create symbolic maps thatrepresent reality. Thus, it is observed that Lovecraft reconstructed the meaning of theregion in which he lived from his own sensory and affective experiences; just like occurredin several writings - fictional, epistolary narratives and articles in periodicals - using thehistorical imaginary to reframe the American cultural identity

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