ALICE AND HER: APPROACHES FROM A POST-MODERN PERSPECTIVE
Post-modernity. Post modern subject. Literature. Cinema.
Post-modernity emerges in the 20st century as a contemporary social condition, initially acknowledged by François Lyotard in his philosophical work. Such condition has brought ruptures between social pillar and beliefs which used to support society during the former period. It was permeated by the legitimization of knowledge, scientific progress, individualism, as well as industrial and technological revolutions. This study is based on the works of selected author such as François Lyotard (1998), Linda Hutcheon (1991), Steven Connor (2004), Terry Eagleton (2006-2016), Gilles Deleuze (2000-2012), Gilles Lipovestky (2005-2014) e Zygmunt Bauman (2001), the analysis, which will make use of the investigative method, in a qualitative perspective, in order to verify how the corpus fictionally represent the studied characteristics in literature and in cinema. In this context, this research aims to analyze the main characteristics of the post-modern aesthetics, more specifically in the novel Alice in Wonderland (1965) by Lewis Carrol and the film Her (2013) by Spike Jonze. Highlighted as renowned homologies by Umberto Eco, the structural similarities between cinema and literature, throughth post-modern perspective utilized on the corpus were found as approximation characteristics such as individualism e identity crisis, supported by Freud, Hall, and Bauman; absence of God as seen in Eagleton, and, lastly, deterritorialization, supported in Deleuze & Guattari (1997); Augé (1994) who conceptualizes the non-place; the dislocation of the subject, also analyzed through the optics of Stuart Hall (2006). Thus, confirming the post-modern influence over the two components of the corpus.