Banca de DEFESA: ANNATERRA TEIXEIRA DE LIMA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ANNATERRA TEIXEIRA DE LIMA
DATE: 24/07/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: CCHLA
TITLE:

BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY: THE SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN THE NOVEL GIZINHA, BY POLYCARPO FEITOSA

KEY WORDS:

Tradition. Modernity. Literature from Rio Grande do Norte. Feminist Criticism. Social Representation. Identity.

PAGES: 119
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Comparada
SUMMARY:

The present study aims to provide an analysis of the novel Gizinha (1930) by the writer from Rio Grande do Norte, Polycarpo Feitosa, from a women's experience perspective, proposing new interpretative parameters to the literary text. Its goal is to identify the relevance of the female voice in the construction of the narrative, as well as the traces of patriarchy present in the style, themes, and different voices of the novel. Therefore, the research objectives the following: to investigate, through a comparative study, the construction of the characters' subjectivities based on power relations, the body and language; to analyze the social and cultural contexts in which the representations were developed; and to ascertain whether the novel constructs a representation of women's identity that contributes to a discussion about the persistence of dominant themes and tensions in literature from Rio Grande do Norte, thus characterizing how regional traditions interact in the process of constructing the meaning of the modern. To comprehend the chosen theme, literature was considered from a historical perspective. Thus, this work discusses the theoretical orientations of Showalter (1994) and Moi (1999), regarding the establishment of the founding bases of feminist criticism; Butler (2022) and Lauretis (2019), regarding notions of gender and gender culture; Woodward, Silva, and Hall (2014) concerning the cultural construction of identities. The analysis of the corpus reveals, therefore, that narratives by male authors construct a representation of women's experience based on cultural stereotypes that serve the purposes of patriarchal ideology, always assigning the same roles of subordination and negative reference.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interno - 1299003 - DERIVALDO DOS SANTOS
Interno - 1675070 - JOSE LUIZ FERREIRA
Externa à Instituição - CASSIA DE FATIMA MATOS DOS SANTOS - IFRN