SPACE AND TIME CONFIGURATIONS IN MARIA JUDITE DE CARVALHO AND LYGIA FAGUNDES TELLES NARRATIVES
Space. Time. Literary field. Feminine Authorship. Memory.
This thesis presents a comparative study between narratives by female writers Maria Judite de Carvalho (1921, Lisbon - 1998) and Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923, São Paulo - ), with the objective of analyzing how the relationships between space and time are set in the narratives "“As palavras poupadas”, “A noite indigna”, “Seta despedida” and “George” by the Portuguese author; “Noturno amarelo”, “Uma branca sombra pálida”, “O encontro” e “A confissão de Leontina” of the Brazilian author. The work is based on three theoretical and analytical axes: the first, based on the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu (1996, 2003, 2012, 2015) and Pascale Casanova (2002), investigates through a historical-sociological bias how Maria Judite de Carvalho and Lygia Fagundes Telles were inserted in the respective literary fields to learn how these female writers interpreted their time. The second perspective, of symbolic character, analyzes the rupture of linear time through heterotopic places and scrutinizes the feminine space-body submitted to a dominant symbolic power in anachronic temporal propositions and in diverse social spaces, according to Michel Foucault (2001) and Pierre Bourdieu (2019). Finally, the third axis of analysis comprises the space and time of memory as elements of the narrative and as stimuli for literary creation, based on the concepts of Paul Ricoeur (2007, 2011).