Banca de DEFESA: MIDIÃ ELLEN WHITE AQUINO

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MIDIÃ ELLEN WHITE AQUINO
DATE: 22/07/2021
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: UFRN - via google meets
TITLE:

CONFIGURATIONS OF SPACE IN LITERATURE WRITTEN BY WOMEN: Maria Judite de Carvalho e Lygia Fagundes Telles

KEY WORDS:

   Space. Literary field. Women’s authorship. Heterotopy. Women’s body-space

PAGES: 167
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Comparada
SUMMARY:

This dissertation presents a comparative study between the literary work of the writers Maria Judite de Carvalho (1921, Lisbon – 1998, Lisbon) and Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923, São Paulo –) and it aims at analyzing how the social space of female authorship is defined in the Portuguese-Brazilian literary field and how the narrative spaces are constructed in the short stories “Além do Quadro” and “As Palavras Poupadas”, by the Portuguese author, “Venha Ver o Pôr do Sol” and “Noturno Amarelo”, by the Brazilian writer, respectively. Therefore, this work was structured from two theoretical-methodological axes: the first one, based on Pierre Bourdieu (1996, 2003, 2012, 2015) and the ideas of the literary field and habitus, examines, from a sociological perspective, the trajectory of female authorship in heterogeneous contexts in order to understand the way in which Carvalho and Telles interpreted the period they lived as well as how such writers attained a place of consolidation in the Portuguese-Brazilian literary field. The second perspective of analysis focuses on the construction of space as a narrative category, as it seeks to examine how heterotopic spaces, according to Michel Foucault ([1967] 2001), are represented. Therefore, heterotopic places such as sanatoriums, asylums, cemeteries, mirrors, and gardens were studied, taking the relations between space and symbolic power in confrontation with the female bodies-spaces depicted in aforementioned short stories into consideration. Moreover, for the bodies of the female characters looked into this research are also viewed as heterotopies, some typologies were drawn in order to understand issues related to the symbolic violence that androcentric power imposes on women's body-space, for instance: ill body-space, unruly body-space, docile body-space, orphan body-space, objectified body-space, captive body-space, and guilty body-space. Through the analysis, it was thus observed that the spaces represented in the Juditian and Lygian narratives resound the context of oppression towards the female subject, once they are counter spaces that, when placed with the symbolic, translate fear and insecurity, silence and loneliness, as well as the precise anguish of women’s scripture.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1423480 - WIEBKE ROBEN DE ALENCAR XAVIER
Interna - 3351552 - ROSANNE BEZERRA DE ARAUJO
Externa ao Programa - 1223367 - JULIANE VARGAS WELTER
Externa à Instituição - LUCIANA ELEONORA CALLADO DEPLAGNE
Externa à Instituição - MONA LISA BEZERRA TEIXEIRA - UERN