Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LÍVIA MARIA COSTA SOUSA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LÍVIA MARIA COSTA SOUSA
DATE: 25/11/2022
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: ESPAÇO VIRTUAL
TITLE:

Black women in becoming: an analysis of Nicketche – a history of polygamy by Paulina Chiziane and Kindred – blood ties by Octávia Butler 

KEY WORDS:

Black woman writing; becoming-woman; Africa; black diaspora; Paulina Chiziane; Octavia Butler.

PAGES: 130
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Teoria Literária
SUMMARY:

The present research aims to analyze the narratives Nicketche – a history of polygamy (2002), by Paulina Chiziane and Kindred – laces of blood (2017) by Octávia Butler, taking, as an axis of analysis, the idea that, in their writings, these authors propose interpretations about the becoming-woman from a perspective of Africa, notably Mozambique, and the North American diaspora. The notion of becoming explored here is borrowed from Deleuze's (1974) thought, in the sense of promoting multiplicities, the lines of flight from the place of oppression, towards new paths that trigger black artistic, cultural and educational assemblages, deconstructing, thus, these imposing representations and their unfolding in the cultural industry. I understand that, in the texts studied here (BUTLER, 2017; CHIZIANE, 2002), the authors forge their characters, the progress and thematization of the plot, the scenes, temporalities and narrative spaces in such a way that they end up denouncing the colonial limitation and representation (DELEUZE, 1974) and, more than that, they explore fields of literary construction that impose the need for Afrocentered critical and theoretical strategies. Her texts choose, in terms of politics and aesthetics, discourses articulated with ancestry (MARTINS, 2021; SODRÉ, 2017; OLIVEIRA, 2021; RIBEIRO, 2020), with the protagonism and resistance of black women through writing , with writing as a policy of representation (EVARISTO, 2007, 2020), fabulation (HARTMAN, 2020) as a narrative strategy and bewildering colonial paradigms of verisimilitude, demanding dissident theoretical readings, in addition to pointing out the perspective of black women's writing as act of resistance, of self-recovery (hooks, 2019), of “raising one's voice” (hooks, 2019), of self-defining (LORDE, 2009; COLLINS, 2019) and self-naming (MARTINS, 1996). In this sense, this is what we can call the construction of one's own diction (SOUZA, 2018), as analyzed in the selected narratives (BUTLER, 2017; CHIZIANE, 2002), for an exercise of de-repression of meanings, places of speech and interpretations. of the self and the world commonly made invisible and stigmatized by colonial thought, whose basis is based on racial supremacism and misogyny. Furthermore, I am interested in establishing critical connections that point out how these writers create strategies to build a writing committed to life and a life committed to writing (EVARISTO, 2007) and “creative and discursive ways of mobilizing existences” (SANTIAGO, 2018). Through a thought that seeks to understand writing and diverse textualities as becomings, that is, rhizomatic supplements of creative writing, I bring, to the dialogue scene of this thesis, texts, interviews and dispersed conferences that bring the voices of the authors beyond its novels chosen here as the corpus of this study.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 3365799 - LIVIA MARIA NATALIA DE SOUZA SANTOS
Interna - 2326650 - DENISE CARRASCOSA FRANCA
Externa à Instituição - ANA RITA SANTIAGO DA SILVA - UFRB