Banca de DEFESA: AURÉLIA BENTO ALEXANDRE

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DISCENTE : AURÉLIA BENTO ALEXANDRE
DATA : 21/07/2016
HORA: 14:30
LOCAL: AUDITÓRIO A
TÍTULO:

The eclipse of existence: Figurations of the old age in Moreira Campos' tales

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

 Moreira Campos, Representation, Old age, Solitude.

PÁGINAS: 114
GRANDE ÁREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Comparada
RESUMO:

This study analyzes the construction of the discourse on old age in Moreira Campos’ prose (1914- 1994). In order to achieve our goal, we chose the short stories: “As velhas”, “Os fantasmas”, “O grande medo” e “Os pesados lagartos”, which are present at the book O puxador de terço (1969). In our research, we specifically take into account the representation of old age and we also investigate the voice that builds this representation with the purpose of finding out if it belongs to the narrator, who, before the hollowness imposed to the old age discourse, assumes this speech. In the narratives of Moreira Campos, older characters are represented as lonely people facing real battles, sometimes even with themselves, to keep a dialogue with the surrounding world whether is their family or the social environment.  This analysis focuses on this aspect and comprises the social context in which the work is placed, promoting a dialogue that shows how the social and historical life are set in the alluded short stories. Literatura e Sociedade (1967), by Candido, supports the discussion and establishment of the literary text relation with the social reality. Regarding the discussion that we bring about modernity, the ideas of Berman (2007), in Tudo que é sólido desmancha no ar, are extremely important. Old age discussions have as theoretical support the thought of Beauvoir (1990), Secco (1994) and Bosi (1994). The dissertation shows that the narratives analyzed, including old age in its historical and social dimension, highlight some exclusive procedures dispensed to old people in capitalist modern society: devaluation, abandonment and absence of projects to reintegrate the elderly to society making them feel useful.

 

 

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Interno - 1299003 - DERIVALDO DOS SANTOS
Interno - 3351552 - ROSANNE BEZERRA DE ARAUJO
Externo à Instituição - MARÍLIA GONÇALVES BORGES SILVEIRA - IFRN