Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: BRUNA RAFAELLE DE JESUS LOPES

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : BRUNA RAFAELLE DE JESUS LOPES
DATE: 16/09/2022
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

THE CONSTRUCTION OF FEMALE CHARACTERS IN CARMEN LAFORET, MARILIA ARNAUD AND VARGAS LLOSA

KEY WORDS:

Eroticism. Female Characters. Motherhood. Power relationships.

PAGES: 69
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Comparada
SUMMARY:

This thesis will seek to investigate the construction of female characters in the novels of the authors: Mario Vargas Llosa, Marília Arnaud and Carmen Laforet. As such, three works have been selected to analyze the construction of ‘vargallosian' characters: Elogio de la madrasta [The Stepmother’s Praise] (1988), Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto [The Notebooks of don Rigoberto] (1997) and El héroe discreto [The Discreet Hero] (2013). We will refer to them as the ‘vargallosian' trinity. In parallel, we will investigate, by means of comparative analysis, the construction of female characters by the Spaniard, Carmen Laforet, in “Nada” [Nothing] (1944) and the Brazilian, Marília Arnaud, in “O Pássaro Secreto” [The Secret Bird] (2021). These works are situated in distinct time and space to understand the construction and representation of female characters in the context of their literary production. In this thesis, we will seek to understand if the demonization of female characters created by female authors is the same demonization that haunt female characters developed by male authors. Aside from that, this study will analyze if the eroticism from a feminine perspective is different from that of a masculine perspective and how these female characters are presented and recognized in the society in which they live, rendering problematic the gender question. We will also investigate if the development of these characters possesses a deconstruction of the maternal personality. Accordingly, we will evaluate if they are seen as women simply because they occupy a maternal role, noting that there is a tendency to break the social expectations of how a mother is expected to be in the selected works, while raising questions related to determinisms that are directed to women, regarding them as subjects solely defined by motherhood. In order to carry out this analysis, we will be supported by theoretical precepts from Bakhtin (1997, 2010, 2011), in what is said within dialogue present in the opus, also looking at themes of eroticism and sexuality deriving from theoretical supplements of Bataille (2014), Freud (2020), and Foucault (2012, 2013, 2014). We will be guided in our reflection of female gender questions by texts from Simone de Beauvoir (2019), Virginia Woolf (2019) and Susan Bordo (1997), along with dialogue from various other readings that will also contribute to the development of this research.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 3351552 - ROSANNE BEZERRA DE ARAUJO
Interna - 1803529 - REGINA SIMON DA SILVA
Externo à Instituição - TITO MATIAS FERREIRA JÚNIOR - IFRN