Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LARISSA DIAS BARBOSA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LARISSA DIAS BARBOSA
DATE: 02/09/2021
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: SALA VIRTUAL DO GOOGLE MEET
TITLE:

WRITING THE LESBIAN EXISTENCE: REPRESENTATIONS AND STEREOTYPES IN AMORA, BY NATALIA BORGES POLESSO

KEY WORDS:

Women. Gender studies. Dissent. Lesbianities. Amora. 

PAGES: 45
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Brasileira
SUMMARY:

Based on feminist criticism and gender studies, the present thesis aims at analyzing the representations and stereotypes of lesbianities in the short stories “Flor, flores, ferro retorcido”, “vó, a senhora é lésbica?”, and “Diáspora lésbica”. These three narratives make up the short story anthology entitled Amora, published in 2015, by the writer Natalia Borges Polesso, which has as its main thread stories of lesbians/queer women in their diverse experiences and performances. In the research, we investigate the ways in which Polesso, through the construction of her characters, tensions stereotypes contained in social imaginaries to build plural representation of dissents. The research also discusses the power of the writer’s discourse, as a subversive bias of the hegemonic uses of language in the literary field, by inscribing lesbian existence in Amora. To this end, we reflect from the feminist criticism contained in Bonnet (1995), Lauretis (1994), Rich, (2010) and Wiitig (2006), taking a look at the author’s constructions of lesbians/queer characters and from the gender studies coined by Butler (2010), Foucault (1999), Bourdieu (2012) and Louro (2020), seeking to understand how aspects of social constructions of sexuality and gender are engendered in the short stories. We also underpin ourselves, in order to better discuss stereotypes, imaginaries and social representation in Charaudeau (2017) and Moscovici (2015). In face of the analyzes and discussions of this research, we understand the importance of Polesso’s work for the construction of a more plural and dissident Brazilian literary scenario, which guides multiple women, living multiple sexualities.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2312500 - MAURO DUNDER
Externa ao Programa - 1223367 - JULIANE VARGAS WELTER
Externa à Instituição - MARLISE VAZ BRIDI - USP