Banca de DEFESA: LÍVIA MARIA COSTA SOUSA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LÍVIA MARIA COSTA SOUSA
DATE: 12/04/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: on line
TITLE:

BLACK WOMEN IN PROCESSES OF SELF-RECOVERY AND HEALING: AN ANALYSIS OF NIKETCHE – A STORY OF POLYGAMY BY PAULINA CHIZIANE AND KINDRED – BLOOD TIES BY OCTAVIA BUTLER

KEY WORDS:

Black woman’s writing; healing maps; Africa; black diaspora; Paulina Chiziane; Octavia Butler.

PAGES: 172
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Teoria Literária
SUMMARY:

BLACK WOMEN IN PROCESSES OF SELF-RECOVERY AND HEALING: AN ANALYSIS OF NIKETCHE – A STORY OF POLYGAMY BY PAULINA CHIZIANE AND KINDRED – BLOOD TIES BY OCTAVIA BUTLER

This research aims to analyze the narratives of Niketche – A Story of Polygamy (2002) by Paulina Chiziane and Kindred – Blood Ties (1979) by Octavia Butler. The central focus of the analysis revolves around the idea that these authors propose interpretations on processes of self-recovery (Hooks, 2019; 2023). The suggested pathways for healing are rooted in perspectives from Africa, particularly Mozambique, and the North American diaspora. In the texts under study, the authors craft characters, develop plotlines, and thematize scenes, temporalities, and narrative spaces, exposing and denouncing colonial and Platonic limitations of representation (Deleuze, 1974; Derrida, 1995; Morrison, 1992). Moreover, they explore literary construction that necessitates Afrocentric critical and theoretical strategies. In terms of politics and aesthetics, the chosen discourses are deeply connected with ancestry (Martins, 2021; Sodré, 2017; Oliveira, 2021; Ribeiro, 2020), the protagonism and resistance of black women through writing, writing-lived experience as a policy of representation (Evaristo, 2007; 2020), critical fabulation (Hartman, 2020), sankofanarration (Brooks; Mcgee; Schoelman, 2019), and rememory (Morrison, 2020) as narrative strategies. These disorient colonial paradigms of verisimilitude, necessitating dissident theoretical readings and pointing to the perspective of black women’s writing as an act of (re)existence, self-recovery (hooks, 2019; 2023), “raising the voice” (Hooks, 2019), self-definition (Lorde, 2009; Collins, 2019), self-representation (Hooks, 2019; Sarr, 2019), and self-naming (Martins, 1996). Understanding literature as a vital space for self-recovery, healing, and healing, not just individually, but collectively, the research maps the processes of self-recovery experienced by selected characters and authors. It seeks to comprehend their choices and paths of “healing” to envision a future where hope, well-being, and self-love (physically, emotionally, and spiritually) are possible despite various forms of daily oppression. The research discusses the approaches and distances between these experiences, investigating the singularities and similarities in the aesthetic and political approaches of the authors. Utilizing a theoretical-critical approach primarily anchored in black women’s literature, black feminism (Davis, 1983; Hooks, 1994, 2019, 2023; Collins, 2019; Lorde, 2019, et al.), and Womanism (Walker, 1983), the methodology incorporates textual analysis, bibliographic review, and interdisciplinary methods. Additionally, the study aims to establish critical connections that highlight how these writers create strategies to construct a writing committed to life and a life committed to writing (Evaristo, 2007). Through a thought process that seeks to understand writing-lived experience and diverse textualities as a form of “fight in language to recover oneself – to rewrite oneself, reconcile, renew,” and asserts that “[...] our words are an action, a resistance” (Hooks, 2019), the thesis engages in a dialogue scene that incorporates texts, interviews, and scattered conferences, bringing the voices of the authors beyond the novels chosen as the corpus of this study.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 3365799 - LIVIA MARIA NATALIA DE SOUZA SANTOS
Interna - 2326650 - DENISE CARRASCOSA FRANCA
Externa ao Programa - 1218110 - FERNANDA RODRIGUES DE MIRANDA - UFBAExterna à Instituição - ANA RITA SANTIAGO DA SILVA - UFRB
Externo à Instituição - ASSUNÇÃO DE MARIA SOUSA E SILVA