A (des)construção da noção de gênero nos contos de Katherine Mansfield

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

O tempo de O despertar

Departing from the theoretical principle that the feminine text, as a palimpsest, holds subtextual meanings which, in permanent interaction with the textual surface, disarticulate the oppositional and hierarchical backgrounds of patriarchy, this essay intends to offer a general overview on the narrative instance of time in The Awakening, the most important work by Kate Chopin – one of the highlights of Realism in the United States –, with the intention to show how the time instance brings with it and at the same time disseminates into the other narrative elements some inter-dictions to gainsay patriarchy.

Os contos quase silenciosos de Lygia Fagundes Telles

Lygia Fagundes Telles elegeu em sua ficção temas instigantes como o fantástico e o insólito, ao lado de elementos relacionados aos problemas sociais e individuais. Manifestando a influência de autores brasileiros e estrangeiros, de Machado de Assis a Henry James, a autora assimilou novas formas para representar na narrativa breve o indivíduo solitário na cidade ou impotente na barbárie contemporânea. Este trabalho revisita exemplos da força dessa maturidade literária nos contos, assinalando a utilização das estruturas para evidenciar conteúdos temáticos.

Estratégias do desejo: amor e erotismo na obra poética de Cristina Peri Rossi

This work discusses some of the most representative poems of Uruguayan writer Cristina Peri Rossi (1941 -), compiled in the book Poesía reunida (2005), by analyzing the exploration of recurring themes, like love and eroticism. The proposed analysis will feature the theoretical support of the works of Georges Bataille (1987) and Octavio Paz (1993).

Acerca da existência de pensadoras no Brasil e na América Latina

Neste texto, procuramos pelas pensadoras latino-americanas, com ênfase nas pensadoras brasileiras. O pensamento de autoria feminina abre-se para um campo multidisciplinar; nele reconhecemos um protagonismo revelador de identidades femininas reflexivas exemplares. Buscamos fazer um inventário inicial da reflexão protagonizada por mulheres, entre nós, e constatamos a necessidade de uma obra de referência que se dedique exclusivamente ao pensamento delas, no contexto latino-americano e brasileiro, para evitar que a marginalização da produção filosófica feminina se dissolva no problema mais geral do desaparecimento da filosofia latino-americana. Dialogamos com o Diário de um Filósofo no Brasil, de Julio Cabrera, perguntando por categorias capazes de revelar as nossas pensadoras, em suas singularidades e diferenças. Neste sentido, apresentamos duas categorias, abrangentes e inaugurais: párias e exiladas, recuperando, para os nossos propósitos, algumas reflexões de Flora Tristán, Hannah Arendt e María Zambrano. _________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT

ATIRE EM SOFIA, THE WRITER SÔNIA COUTINHO: WRITING AND RESISTANCE IN THE LITERATURE OF FEMALE AUTHORSHIP

The literature on female authorship as a place for questions about the female, is one of the topics discussed in feminist theory and in this article will be reviewed by the trajectory of feminist thought in the contemporary context. This analysis will give from the novel Atire em Sofia (1989), the writer Sonia Coutinho. This perspective will be appointed after the rupture of the central character, Sophie, with tradition and with the subjugation of his body. The narrative discusses the status of women, which has always worked in phallocentric discourse, the signifier always referred to the meaning, signaling that it is time to reverse the situation and take over the deed to her sign her own story. To this end, we will use as a base, feminism, women and writing changes over the centuries that resulted in gender studies.

Female authorship Literature: Women in the history and in the memory

The purpose of this study is to analyze the process of Brazilian women’s search for equality, concerning cultural and social areas over five centuries. Oppression, submission and silence used to be common words for women during this period in the history. The extreme patriarchal system and the sexism in different areas of society prevented the female rights from expressing their opinions. This study process involved the research on significant articles, books and magazines related to gender equalities. The present achievements of women in the country are due to the work of feminist movements supported in Cultural Studies and Gender Theories that led women to represent an equal role in the society. As a result, women in the twentieth century got rid of the sexist oppression and besides producing remarkable writings, they improved their identities revealing themselves as skilful people able to contribute to the literary canon as well as diligent professional in education, politics and different areas of society in the postwar period.

ALGUNS APONTAMENTOS SOBRE GÊNERO E REPRESENTAÇÃO NA FICÇÃO DE PATRÍCIA MELO

A partir da análise da trajetória de algumas das principais personagens femininas dos romances O matador (1995) e Inferno (2000), da escritora brasileira contemporânea Patrícia Melo, nosso objetivo neste artigo é traçar alguns apontamentos acerca do modo como são aí representadas as relações de gênero, no contexto do feminismo contemporâneo. Passados quase quarenta anos da revolução sexual que marcou os anos 1970 no Brasil, a literatura de autoria feminina brasileira dada a público nos últimos anos tem acompanhado o desenvolvimento do modo de a mulher estar na realidade extraliterária. No entanto, em consonância comas preocupações de muitos(as) críticos(as) do feminismo contemporâneo,os(as) quais nos fornecem a metodologia aqui aplicada, há que se considerar os diferentes contextos em que a categoria mulheres - transposta para o universo literário - se constitui, bem como as modalidades raciais, classistas, étnicas, sexuais e regionais com as quais estabelece interseções. Nesse cenário, a autonomia e a condição de agente alcançadas, em tese, pela mulher, por intermédio das lutas feministas contra os desmandos da ideologia patriarcal, é relativizada. Demonstrar como isso ocorre na ficção de Patrícia Melo é nossa preocupação nesses apontamentos.

A CONSTRUÇÃO DO FEMININO EM “OLHOS D’ÁGUA”, DE CONCEIÇÃO EVARISTO: UMA ANÁLISE DE PERFORMANCES PÓS-IDENTITÁRIAS DE GÊNERO

A literatura afrofeminina sempre esteve à margem do cânone literário, identificando-se com a literatura “subalterna” excluída pela Tradição, ou seja, o “pensamento heterossexual” (WITTING, 2006) que silencia os grupos marginalizados e não-canônicos, a saber: mulheres, negros, homossexuais, entre outros que não correspondem ao modelo heterossexual-ocidental, representado pela branquitude. Dessa forma, analisar a obra “Olhos d’água”, de Conceição Evaristo, serve de mecanismo para desconstrução e desnormatização da análise literária clássica. A obra de Evaristo é considerada, além de seu destaque literário, como um instrumento de luta da literatura de autoria feminina e negra, dando voz às denúncias da opressão e da violência. Objetivamos com o nosso trabalho problematizar outras óticas do texto com base na análise discursivo-social das personagens femininas da obra de Conceição Evaristo. Através dessa análise podemos interrogar os lugares e a representação de valoração das práticas culturais não-hegemônicas, a fim de perverter a ordem patriarcal heteronormativa e legitimar a estética literária, “desmantelando” a naturalização da violência contra as mulheres negras e pobres.

THE DOUBLE AND THE OTHERNESS IN “O CÍRCULO”, BY RUTH LAUS

This article aims to approach the issue of deployment of the self in the short story "O círculo", by Ruth Laus, through the figure of the character Paula and the pursuit of her double. The study of the female character, while literary representation, and related to the duplicity, is associated with issues related to identity and the construction of the self, from an internal scission, allowing therefore to examine the representation of the double, permeated by issues related to otherness, especially regarding to the maintenance of subjectivity in the search of the Other as an extension of the self. The double, in turn, is established as the phenomenon able to settle an active connection with the world, the dialectic condition of the creature, as a way of affirmation from the conception of (re)cognition of the Other as a link between past-present-future in the (re)construction of the unit and establishment of the balance. For the character Paula the element that indicates the division of her personality is the aborted fetus and thenceforth begins the maintenance of the inner Self of the protagonist: find what from her was split.

The representation of the northeastern migrant: interstices and culture in the figure of Francisco da Silva in "Liberdade", by Ruth Laus

It serves as the object of analysis of this article the representation of the northeastern migrant in the figure of the male character Francisco da Silva, protagonist of the short story "Liberdade", by Ruth Laus, as a fictional character who lives "in an interrogatory, interstitial space between the act of representation [...] and the presence of community itself" (Bhabha, 1998, p. 22) where he comes to enter and to settle. Chico, as he is known, embarks on a crowded truck, and his fate, like that of many other migrants, is the Southeast region of Brazil, where, between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, he chooses the sea. To the same extent, beyond the concept(s) of culture(s), and the need to (re)think the concept of [cultural] human community - here adding the cultural term to the proposal of Bhabha (1998), as a way of thinking about the role of the individual - are taken and analyzed, also, the cultural identity concepts based on the difference itself. It is thought in what way, then, and through what imposing character, the wealth and the values ​​of the Northeast, although managed to be spread on national home soil, yet not are conspicuous by their guarantee of permanence of its inhabitants in their homeland.  

Pensamento Liminar e Emancipação na Personagem Tita, em Como Água para Chocolate

Este trabalho verifica a construção do pensamento liminar e a emancipação do subalterno por meio da análise das atitudes da personagem Tita, de Como água para chocolate (1993). A protagonista, ao enfrentar uma tradição familiar em que a filha mais nova não pode se casar por ter de cuidar da mãe durante toda a vida, começa a desestabilizar a subjugação que rege a família, mantido por sua mãe, chamada, na diegese, de Mamãe Elena. Para cumprir tal proposta, serão utilizados, neste artigo, prioritariamente, o conceito de Walter Mignolo (2003) para “pensamento liminar” e o de “subalternidade” proposta por John Beverley (2004).

Autoria e escrita: uma reflexão acerca do autorar em memórias de leituras de alunos de 9º ano do ensino fundamental

This paper presents results concerning studies conducted during the master's research in the area of Applied Linguistics of the Graduate Program in Language Studies - PPgEL, linked to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. We approached this study the question of authorship, which has gained ground increasingly important in academic research, because the act of authoring, in view of the amount of circulating discourses socially, becomes increasingly questionable. We understand authorship as related to a positioning of the subject than to take responsibility, in the Bakhtinian sense, by its text, it makes their views, ideologies, beliefs and values, from ownership and restructuring of the speech of others. This research is methodologically inserted in a qualitative, interpretive in nature and has a corpus analysis of the ten productions written memoir genre of readings produced by students in 9th grade in elementary school. Research aimed to analyze the students' written productions held in the school environment, to identify these texts marks or evidence of authorship and investigate how the restructuring of ownership and voices of others in the process of authoring. We adopt a concept of language from bakhitinianas concepts and understand the text in a vision Geraldiana. The analyzes in this study showed that in most texts there is the strong presence of voices of others, either implicitly and/or explicit. That is, students, to build their sayings, if embraced the voices of others in various formats, in particular styles, namely, by what Bakhtin names as linear style and pictorial style. Some proved his statement highlighting their positions through direct quotes from authors of books, family, teachers, showing us that their voices are filled with voices of others with whom they approve, deny, analyze, think and reflect. We therefore conclude that students were constituted as subjects of their texts, authors, since they leave marked the voices of others so presentified and restructured voices of others who do not actually sounded like voices of others, but as present voices from a discursive restructuring producer

A transfiguração do corpo e do mito no desenho da escrita feminina através de Contos Exemplares de Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A escrita feminina e feminista de Maria Teresa Horta

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)