Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: BEATRIZ MENDES E MADRUGA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : BEATRIZ MENDES E MADRUGA
DATE: 03/12/2019
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: A ser definida pela coordenação
TITLE:

“TORTURE TRILOGY”: WOMEN AND THEIR DISCOURSES IN HELONEIDA STUDART’S NOVELS

KEY WORDS:

Heloneida Studart. Torture Trilogy. Dictatorship. Literature and Society.

PAGES: 70
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Brasileira
SUMMARY:

Between the 1970’s and 1980’s, writer and journalist Heloneida Studart published, among other works, three novels which she called “Torture Trilogy”: O pardal é um pássaro azul (1975), O estandarte da agonia (1981), O torturador em romaria (1985). In these stories Studart narrates everyday lives over the background of Brazilian civil-military dictatorship. All three works grant protagonism to female figures; the first two of them are first-person narratives by the respective protagonists. The third book is narrated by a torturer who reminisces about different moments during the torture of political prisoners while planning a new present and future path for himself. The analysis of this trilogy made possible for us to point out different nuances around the female figures, which lead to an analysis mediated by two key guidelines: the discourses women say to one another; and the female protagonist’s evolution throughout the plot. In order to support such analysis and to broaden our understanding, we resorted to the Bakhtin Circle’s theory with regards to methodological guidelines and concepts of discourse and language pertaining to Bakhtin (2015; 2017), Medviédev (2012), and Voloshinov (2017). Bakhtinian ideas strongly support the first key guideline whereas the analysis of the female protagonists’ evolution will be mainly facilitated by notions of narrative and dialectic theory (CANDIDO, 2014a; 2014b), and fostered by detailing the plots in timely, clarifying transcriptions. The conclusion of these analyses makes us notice two apparently opposite movements generated by the two key guidelines mentioned previously: direct speeches with conservative ideas whose direction is toward the stagnation of the female figure’s independence in society; and the evolution of female characters that shows the opposite path, the building up of independence, autonomy, and fearlessness. This apparent contradiction illustrates the female and feminist movement at that period and updates it, revealing the tension of discrepant forces that society still faces regarding female independence and women representations.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1513790 - ANDREY PEREIRA DE OLIVEIRA
Interno - 2312500 - MAURO DUNDER
Externa ao Programa - 1223367 - JULIANE VARGAS WELTER