Entre fronteiras: a escrita imigrante de Julia Alvarez em How the Garc��a girls lost their Accents

This master s thesis aims at investigating the way in which diasporic subjects in the novel How the Garc��a Girls Lost their Accents (1992) cope with the clash of two cultures the Caribbean one, from the Dominican Republic, and the North-American one, from the U.S., as well as the implications of such negotiations in the lives of immigrants, once it apparently depicts the plight of those who are torn between mother-lands and mother-tongues (IYER, 1993, 46). At the same time, the implications of such negotiations in the lives of immigrants are relevant issues in the writing of Julia Alvarez. For this, there is the analysis of the uses of family memories as one of the main strategies immigrant writers possess to recall their identities. Moreover, this thesis will also consider the language issue for the construction of the immigrant identity insofar as bilingualism is a key factor in the negotiation the Garc��a girls must effect between their Caribbean and their American halves in order to understand where they stand in the contemporary world. In order to build a theoretical framework that supports this master s thesis, we list the works of Homi K. Bhabha (1990, 1996, 2003, 2005), Stuart Hall (2001, 2003), Julia Kristeva (1994), Salman Rushdie (1990, 1994), Sonia Torres (2001, 2003) among other contributions that were crucial to the completion of this academic research

Homoafetividade e abertura pol��tica em contos de Caio Fernando Abreu

This text aims to study the literary representation of homoaffectivity in short stories of Caio Fernando Abreu in the context of brazilian redemocratization, specifically in the narratives published between 1982 and 1988. To understand the relation between literature and historical context in the tales, we betake, principally, to a notion of Literature and Society, as proposed for Antonio Candido. Relating the narratives of Caio Fernando Abreu with the military dictatorship and the redemocratization processes, as well as a generational project named contraculture, we aim to verify as the search for affection for men that desire others men may be conditioned for specific socio-hystorical conditions, understanding the literary work as a privileged field of representation and comprehension of reality

Das cinzas aos mafu��s: inf��ncia e morte na l��rica de Manuel Bandeira

Cet article ��tudie la po��sie de l'enfance et de la mort de Manuel Bandeira, �� partir de la relation entre l'exp��rience, le langage et le sens, afin de mettre en place une nouvelle perspective sur ce th��me, qui sert de guide et structure son Estrela da vida inteira (1966). Pour cela, il faut introduire la notion de lyrique, discut��e par Theodor Adorno, pendant la conf��rence L��rica e sociedade (1958), �� promouvoir la compr��hension du po��te, comme c'est le cas de Bandeira, implique son art par le biais de la dimension n��gative face �� une situation de f��tichisation des choses, afin d'appr��hender des exp��riences qui constituent la substance de la vie et l'essence de la po��sie. �� cette perspective de lyrique s ajoutent les concepts de l'enfance et de la mort, exploit��s par Giorgio Agamben, dans les oeuvres Inf��ncia e hist��ria (2005) et A linguagem e a morte (2006), ��tant largement favorables �� la compr��hension de la po��tique de l'enfance chez Manuel Bandeira, comme une sorte de discours qui r��cup��re l'id��e d'exp��rience dans l actualit��, en marquant la limite entre une exp��rience muette et une exp��rience de la langue, de m��me, la mort apporte des implications relatives �� la n��gativit��, comme une br��che par laquelle l'auteur explore la signification de sa lyrique et la��d��noue�� des incrustations du monde r��ifi��, pour ��tre dans la d��fense du langage non contamin�� par le cl��tur��e qui entravent la conservation de la cr��ature et la donn��e originaire des choses . Cela culmine l aboutissement de la th��se, la conclusion d ��tre la n��gativit�� la voie qui explicite, dans l oeuvre bandeirienne, la culture br��silienne non comme une totalit�� positiv��e dans une ethnie, classe ou nation, mais comme un langage qui reconstruit, avec lyrisme, le color�� mosa��que qui est le Br��sil

O ser el��stico, mola, agulha, trepida����o: express��es do homoerotismo em Fernando Pessoa

This Masters thesis investigates and analyzes the homoerotic expressions in Fernando Pessoa s poetry and in his heteronyms : ��lvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro and Ricardo Reis. Through the elaboration of deceptive strategies as a way to escape from the insults and the constraints, the poet by means of creative runaway lines builds up a homoerotic poetry that differ from the established patterns and representational models of the literature. We can find, bearing in mind a problematic sexuality which overflows in the various I s, of the sinuous identities and the movable boundaries, and intense mask games. They become real in poems, especially by means of sensations, yielding the possibility of a queer discourse and generating a homoerotic poetry. Pessoa s homoerotism is, thus, presented amid friendly relationships, smooth spaces, of heterotrophy of the city, or others space and the closet s aesthetics. Based on this, it is noted the articulations of a performance gender as body scripture and inscription, thus establishing a physical-writing which reveals a transgressive sexuality, with multiple entrances and exits, affirmations and denials that originate paradoxes. In this matter, we develop links between Foucault conceptions (2010a, 2010b, 2011) towards the history of sexuality, friendship and the power-knowledge relations with traces of significance and subjectivity, in processes of faciality and BwO (Body-without-Organs) in Deleuze and Guattari (1996). We still consider the ontological questionings towards the Gay dimension in Eribon (2008) and we raise aspects concerning the construction of the idea of masculinity in Bourdieu (2010). Finally, we base ourselves on Sedgwick s 1993 closet epistemological approach, as well as on Butler s 2012 gender and performance theory, also going through a few Bataille 1987 passages about erotism, that redimension the homoaffective images of the Portuguese poet

Samba e negritude: pr��ticas discursivas identit��rias negras em sambas de enredo de tem��tica africana

The study object of this thesis is the process of affirmation, (re)construction and (re)signification of the black identities in the discourses which cross the samba-enredo of African theme of the samba schools belonging to the elite group from the carioca carnival, in the period from 1960 and 2007. The main question which guides this research is the following: How does this discursive process occur and which are the possible effects resulting from it? This research aims to understand, through interpretation gestures of such discourses and from those which undergo the interview statements and the answers given to the questionnaires applied to spectators and parade exhibiters of these samba schools, in what way the negritude conception and the citizenship practice of the black Brazilian people, especially those from Rio de Janeiro, can be affected by the meaning production circulating in the discursive practices of these sambas. The research was theoretically related to the Applied Linguistics, however it articulates theories originated from Cultural Studies and Ethnic-racial Studies as well as it presents some theoretical and methodological fundamentals from the Discourse Analysis of French line. As concerns the methodology, it is of interpretative, qualitative basis with procedures of discursive character. The interview analysis did not reveal, as consequence of the discourses circulating in the sambas, a direct involvement of the black people who were interviewed in struggle for their citizenship practice, but it pointed out sliding of meaning in regard to the negritude emergence

Multiplicando veredas entre guimar��es rosa e oswaldo lamartine

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Das rela����es entre imagin��rio e poesia na obra de Orides Fontela: o regime diurno da imagem

The present work seeks essentially to demonstrate how some anthropological structures of the imaginary, theorized by the French thinker Gilbert DURAND, projected themselves in a noticeable manner in the poetic work of the Brazilian poet Orides FONTELA. Chiefly we will demonstrate with great care in what way this projection and vivification occur through an imagination that not only materializes some fundamental archetypes of the human imagination, but also seeks to organize them through original poems in its form of presenting the poetic discourse, giving here a different contribution of the mythical or religious discourse, privileged places, since always, where the symbolic functions also manifest themselves

Do cientista ao ativista: os problemas da ci��ncia do texto e uma solu����o revolucionaria na obra de Terry Eagleton

The literary critic Terry Eagleton obtained notoriety in academic circles when he was recognized intellectually for his bestselling book Literary Theory: An Introduction. In this book, the English author boldly proposes the end of literature and literary criticism. However, Eagleton proposed years before, in his book Criticism and Ideology (1976), a scientific system of analysis of literary texts, which seemed less radical, both in theory and in method, than in his later theoretical proposal. Based on this, the objective of this dissertation is to present the English literary critic��s initial method, explaining the reasons that led him to abandon his initial project - of develop a method of analysis of the literary text on a Marxist scientific perspective - and to propose, in the following years, in his most famous book and others, a revolutionary vision that would go beyond textual analysis and make literary texts have a practical intervention in society. Finally, we explain what would be his idea of revolutionary criticism

A identidade crioula em Texaco de Patrick Chamoiseau

Notre dissertation propose un questionnement ayant pour th��me l identit�� cr��ole dans l oeuvre Texaco (1992), du martiniquais Patrick Chamoiseau. Texaco op��re une r��trospective de l histoire martiniquaise en y apportant un nouveau point de vue, influenc�� par la culture populaire martiniquaise, inversant ainsi les repr��sentations traditionnelles forg��es �� partir des mod��les m��tropolitains. La th��orie principale utilis��e dans cette dissertation est celle d Edouard Glissant, lorsqu il utilisa la notion de rhizome pour l adapter �� la r��alit�� de la culture cr��ole. D apr��s cette perspective, une racine unique, qui repr��senterait symboliquement une culture unique, tuerait les autres racines se trouvant �� son alentour, alors que le rhizome, c est-��-dire la racine multiple, irait �� la rencontre des autres racines et se m��langerait avec elles, pour former un ensemble qui s ��tend �� l infini. La th��orie pr��sente dans le livre de Patrick Chamoiseau ��crire en pays domin�� (1997), s est r��v��l�� ��tre d une importance fondamentale dans notre dissertation, en ce qui concerne le questionnement sur l usage de la langue de la m��tropole dans une ancienne colonie. Cette r��flexion va permettre de commencer une discussion �� propos de l influence de la culture m��tropolitaine sur la culture de l ancienne colonie, qui dans ce cas, se voit opprim��e. Pour commencer, nous verrons dans la premi��re partie les m��canismes d oppression utilis��s en ce qui concerne la n��gation de l identit�� cr��ole, s aidant de syst��mes de domination linguistiques et culturelles. Dans la seconde partie, nous ��tudierons l ��mergence d une identit�� cr��ole dans Texaco, gr��ce �� une tentative de r��ecriture d une des possibles histoires de la Martinique

Por dentro da cidade: solid��o e marginalidade em Rubem Fonseca

The fictional work of the author Rubem Fonseca, since its debut in 1963, with the book of tales entitled Os Prisioneiros, it has been evoking a continuing interest in their readers and in the specialized criticism. The doctoral thesis entitled Por dentro da cidade solid��o e marginalidade em Rubem Fonseca turns itself to his tale, it is considered by many as the most pungent of the author s literature. It is chosen a corpus of varied tales of the author, and still having as foundation the ideas from scholars of literary narratives, among them Antonio Candido (1980; 1987; 2006), Alfredo Bosi (1999; 2006) and still Walter Benjamin, (2000a; 2000b), the thesis discusses the contemporary Brazilian literature, more specifically the fonsequiana fiction, which exposes in an intense way the modern human condition in big cities: our dramas, inconstancies, desires and loneliness.

O sertanejo e o sevilhano nos poemas de Jo��o Cabral de Melo Neto: o lusco-fusco barroco

The aim of this research is, starting from a Baroque reading, unfold the understanding of the poems by Jo��o Cabral de Melo Neto in the axis Pernambuco-Spain. From this perspective, the reading of poet s Obra Completa allows the appearance of two persons, one from Seville and other from the Brazilian countryside, whom curiously pulsate and reveal themselves from their homelands, Brazilian northeastern dry lands and Seville, to a labyrinthy meeting establishing a close and exciting relationship of cities apart but which mark a contiguous dialogue between both cultures. The theorical effort of this investigation permeates, approaches and contrasts the directions of, among others, Severo Sarduy (1999), Gilles Deleuze (2012) and Eugenio D Ors (unknown). Not traveling an anthropological bias, this study observes the Spanish space and the Brazilian northeastern dry lands space, joining the regional to the universal and analyzes the baroque game in the (re) construction of the both men s cultures. These elements fuse, approach and move away, causing a game of allusions to Pernambuco and Spain that show itself through a similar cultural bias and different at the same time. From this apprehension it is possible to understand the synthesis of the Brazilian arid northeast-Seville men as a update of seventeenth century Baroque coming from indexes that are shown over the particular written by Jo��o Cabral de Melo Neto, in the Iberian Baroque scenario and in the American one s

Pelo escuro: a poesia afro-brasileira de Oliveira Silveira

O presente estudo traz uma reflex��o sobre os discursos culturais afro-brasileiros e o lugar ocupado pela poesia em meio a uma sociedade racista. A pesquisa tem como prop��sito fazer um estudo da poesia de Oliveira Silveira (1968, 1970, 1977, 1981, 1987). Leva-se em considera����o a rela����o da produ����o po��tica de Oliveira com as propostas do movimento da Negritude e o di��logo l��cido que o mesmo estabelece com poetas vinculados ao referido movimento e como Silveira sugere dentro da literatura a negritude como uma forma de intersec����o na poesia brasileira. A proposta aqui apresentada observa tamb��m o hibridismo na po��tica de Oliveira Silveira ao se enfatizar um olhar sobre uma escrita comovida pelo tra��o do entre-lugar do discurso. Analisa-se a caracteriza����o de uma literatura gerada pelo tom de den��ncia ao desconstruir historicamente o que h�� muito tempo se estabelece como democracia racial . Em cumplicidade com a poesia regional do Rio Grande do Sul, a poesia de Oliveira vem permeada pela diversidade de ritmos que traduzem o legado da cultura negra mundo afora. Essa pesquisa sustenta-se nos estudos de Eduardo de Assis Duarte (2005, 2011) e Kabengel�� Munanga (2008, 2009) sobre Negritude e Identidade na literatura afro-brasileira, que se caracteriza como um movimento de consci��ncia pela reconstru����o ou mesmo revis��o hist��rica do que foi apagado no calabou��o dos navios negreiros. As leituras de Eduardo de Assis Duarte fomentam novos questionamentos, p��em em d��vida a exist��ncia de uma identidade essencialista. Aponta-se nessa travessia para uma pluralidade de identidades, constru��das por in��meros grupos culturais na encruzilhada dos diversos momentos hist��ricos. Analisam-se, portanto, a partir da cr��tica que Stuart Hall (2011) faz ao considerar as ideias de di��sporas, as fronteiras das margens no universo da p��s-coloniza����o. Por fim, h�� uma encruzilhada ao se pensar a partir de Kabengel�� Munanga, o discurso da negritude e da identidade negra nas rela����es sociais e culturais afrodescendentes

Cidade e identidade: discursividades imag��tico-espaciais e a constru����o da identidade espacial do Recife, Veneza Brasileira

This treatise analyzes the identitary setting called Veneza Brasileira (Brazilian Venice) which is subscribed to the discoursive materialization related to the imagetic setting (literary and mediatic) produced about the city of Recife. The main investigation of this research is to examine the way how the identitary setting called Veneza Brasileira has been constructed in the imagetic setting practices about the city of Recife in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This study is subscribed to the Applied Linguistics and considers the theoretical perspectives that come from the Cultural Studies which investigation basis is focused on authors such as: Hall (2006); Bauman (1999; 2001;2005); Silva (2000); and Castells (2000) related to the discussion over identity, as well as the discussion over Urban Studies presented in Santos (1997; 1999); Ferrara (1998); and Pesavento (2001). Moreover it is also based on the theoretical basis found in Foucault (2004; 2006; 2007). Furthermore theoretical-methodological approaches rely on the French Discourse Analysis (DA) found in Orlandi (2001); Gregolin (2007); and Courtine (2006). On being so, this treatise aims to: analyze the meaning effects over the production of the identitary setting, especially the so-called Veneza Brasileira, in the imagetic setting discoursive practices (Poems, Post Cards and Touristic Guides) which are produced over the urban setting of the city of Recife. This research is characterized by being qualitative and interpretative and the theoretical analytical approaches contributed to the reading of both poetic and iconic images presented in the excerpts of poems from the nineteenth century and early twentieth century in: Manuel Bandeira s poems, Carlos Pena Filho s poems, and Jo��o Cabral de Melo Neto s poems which were produced in the early and late twentieth century. Moreover, this study observed some photographic images in Post Cards and Touristic Guides related to the visiting of historical sites in Recife. One could conclude that the imagetic setting discourse about Recife produced different identitary effects over the so-called Veneza Brasileira along these three centuries: in the nineteenth century, the poetry constructed the utopia city along with the meaning effect of identitary unit; as for the twentieth century, one observed an oscillation between a utopia/heteroutopia city meaning effect of both united and fragmented identity, the latter one is prevalent. As for the twenty-first century, the media reconstructed over again the utopia city, and consequently, produced meaning effect of identitary unit. These same meaning effects of identity either corroborate or contradict to/with the concepts of the postmodernism over identity along these three centuries. In other words, considering the imagetic setting, this oscillation occurs in the proportion of one finds an (ex) inclusion of social agents that construct these same identities.

Entre Mill��r e Derrida: o humor enquanto experi��ncia da alteridade e do imposs��vel

Brazilian humorist Mill��r Fernandes has a widespread work, from literature to visual arts and journalism. Yet there is the indelible mark of humor, wherever it is. In this dissertation, I propose a reading of his work by deploying French philosopher Jacques Derrida, emphasizing how the construction of the other happens. I aim at Mill��r Definitivo: A B��blia do Caos, but other works will be contemplated when necessary. In order to carry out the analysis, I will offer a general exposition of Millorian work (especially Mill��r Definitivo:A B��blia do Caos) and a general sketch of Derridian philosophy, centered on his discussion on Western philosophy, literature and alterity. At the analysis itself, I will set the methodological axis on the quasi-concept of invention. The analysis shall stress the hypothesis of humor as the experience of alterity and impossible, showing off the humorist as the totally other. In the Millorian text, that experience is characterized by conflictivity, without possibility of resolution

A dupla po��tica do sil��ncio: uma an��lise de Fogo morto e Cartilha do sil��ncio.

This research presents a reading of the poetics of silence in the profile and actions of characters in Fogo morto, by Paraiba s novelist Jos�� Lins do Rego and Cartilha do sil��ncio, by Sergipe s writer Jos�� Francisco Costa Dantas. As a starting point, we intend to demonstrate, through analysis, how the traditional issue of patriarchy, installed in rural areas of Northeast Brazil, live their momentum of rise and decline in different social spaces within narratives. This article shows how man lives tensions caused by the socio-political changes that will gradually be deployed in their environment due to the process of transition from traditional to modern life. From this perspective, this reading encourages a critical reflection on the social space of the mills and farms at the time of their rise and decay, as well as the various gender relationships between the feminine and the masculine world. The analysis indicates that all the changes both in family and social space unfold a world of silent variants and this paper takes as its theoretical basis the concept of silence built from the reflections of Eni Puccinelli Orlandi (2002), Barros Lourival Holland (1990 ), Luiz Costa Lima (1974) and Marisa Simons (1999).