Banca de DEFESA: HILDALIA FERNANDES CUNHA CORDEIRO

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : HILDALIA FERNANDES CUNHA CORDEIRO
DATE: 31/08/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Remota por videoconferência
TITLE:

Abẹ̀bẹ̀ Literature: theoretical-critical black referenced approach to read Toni Morrison

KEY WORDS:

Abẹ̀bẹ̀ Literature. Toni Morrison. Memory of the Waters. red-black Atlantic. Diaspora.

PAGES: 335
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Teoria Literária
SUMMARY:

This thesis aimed to present a theoretical-critical black referenced approach called Abẹ̀bẹ̀ Literature, which attempted to contribute to the access and reading part of the collection published by Toni Morrison, proposing insubordination and insurrection as existential categories and interpretive keys for the analysis of this complex and diverse literary collection. For this purpose, two out of eleven novels, written by Morrison, were thought as corpora. They are: The Bluest Eye (1970) and God Help the Child (2015), corresponding to the first and last published novels. The selected characters were, respectively: Pecola Breedlove, Pauline Breedlove; Claudia MacTeer; Bride and Sweetness. The abẹ̀bẹ̀ (a kind of handheld fan with a mirror) was thought of as a founding symbology in the uninterrupted attempt to organise the fight. As a research problem we asked: What elements, characteristics and traits are present in the works: The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child, which point to the possibility of these narratives as Abẹ̀bẹ̀ Literature? As objectives we listed, one as a more general order: elaborate the notion of Abẹ̀bẹ̀ Literature as a theoretical-critical approach to read the works of Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child. And of a specific order: i) we sought to map the elements, characteristics and traces that are present in the works: The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child which point to the possibility of these narratives being configured as Abẹ̀bẹ̀ Literature. ii) systematise the characteristics of Abẹ̀bẹ̀ Literature, mapping from the identity construction of the five characters already mentioned; iii) identify, from the theoretical-critical Abẹ̀bẹ̀ Literature approach, how the processes of identity construction of the chosen characters occur and iv) examine the ways in which some selected characters internalize the ideology of whiteness and adopt it as a standard of beauty and others make blackness a shield against white supremacy. To support this research, a tripod was designed based on the contributions of black-diasporic literary theory and criticism, black feminism and psychology and psychoanalysis from a black perspective. It should also be noted that the methodology used to carry out the investigation was based on black feminist criticism using the crafting of quilts (hooks, 2019) based on the methodological challenge of “putting pieces together” (ALVES, 2021; XAVIER, 2021), since the final wish was that the voices and experiences of the mentioned characters would be configured as a complex and sophisticated kaleidoscopic, with the aim of better evaluating the learning shared by them. The results revealed that Abẹ̀bẹ̀ Literature conceived the literary collection produced by black women in the diaspora as possibilities for escaping routes and evasions in the various attempts at annihilation proposed by racism and pointing out possible paths against such processes. Knowing the demands faced by the characters, as well as accessing a multitude of stories experienced by them, was what led to the elaboration of such a proposal. A literature that is based on ancestral references. Finally, this literary production has the potential to announce and point out the pitfalls that are always present in the existential journeys of black women and in their processes of identity construction, unlocking the paths, especially at identity crossroads: moments of/for self-knowledge; self-rejection; self-loathing; self-acceptance; self-disclosure; self-sabotage; self-care; self-love; self-healing and self-actualization.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - ***.914.956-** - LUCIA CASTELLO BRANCO - UFMG
Interna - 2767538 - MONICA DE MENEZES SANTOS
Interna - 2049741 - CARLA DAMEANE PEREIRA DE SOUZA
Externo ao Programa - ***.427.233-** - ASSUNÇÃO DE MARIA SOUSA E SILVA - PUCMinas
Externa à Instituição - ANA RITA SANTIAGO DA SILVA - UFRB
Externo à Instituição - CRISTIAN SOUZA DE SALES - UNEB