Banca de DEFESA: KELLANE DOS SANTOS REIS

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : KELLANE DOS SANTOS REIS
DATA : 08/03/2019
HORA: 10:00
LOCAL: Instituto de Letras
TÍTULO:

MISOGINY AND FEMINICITY IN CORDEL LITERATURE: AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER RELATIONS

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Popular literature; cordel literature; gender violence; misogyny; feminicide

PÁGINAS: 102
GRANDE ÁREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Brasileira
RESUMO:

The universe of the cordel literature leaflets is broad and comprises all the social and cultural aspects of the life of a folk. It reflects, therefore, the whole process of the folk’s reality, since the day-by-day difficulties, the occurrence of social injustices, the people’s daily dealings, poverty and work activities. The escape of the daily life occurs through the dream, imagination and mysticism, what means a way of compensation and dealing with social inequalities as well asthe constant challenges that emerge from this reality. Among a diversity of subjects presented by the popular poets, the feminine theme is constantly presented, as well as the narratives that reveal the inferiorization of the feminine gender by the masculine gender. This hierarchy of social roles determines the vulnerability of women in the cordel poems, which exposes them to the most diverse forms of humiliation and gender violence. The purpose of this research is to analyze the cordel literature leaflets, in which I observed the description of some misogyny practices or feminicide; to identify the processes of ideological and cultural domination imposed on the female characters, in popular literature, capable of determining the relations of these violence; to analyze the representation of the woman in the selected poems using theories about poetics of orality and gender relations; to highlight the subaltern place imposed on women in patriarchal societies and the violence to which they are exposed in society that reflected in the cordel literature. Physical, domestic, emotional, and sexual violence, objectification of the female body and feminicide are some of the violence I observed in the selected poems. I analyze the representation of the female characters in the process of submission and insubmission to the male, the sociocultural artifices that make them guilty in the processes that victimize them, and I describe the strategies used by the cordel writers as a mean of subversion of social injustices in which male impunity prevails, showing the complicity between men over the feminine. I discuss the importance of the intellectual’s engagement against social injustices and the importance of literature in maintaining the struggle for the democratization of power spaces and active in the defense of equal rights. Social inequality, legitimized by phallocentrism and the naturalization of social roles - determined by sex difference, is arbitrary and present in poems in which female characters have their bodies violated, revealing the dominance of masculine over feminine, in a dynamic relation between fiction and reality.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1064696 - ALVANITA ALMEIDA SANTOS
Interno - 2522438 - SUZANE LIMA COSTA
Interno - 3298497 - NANCY RITA FERREIRA VIEIRA
Externo à Instituição - SILVIO ROBERTO DOS SANTOS OLIVEIRA - UNEB
Externo à Instituição - ANDREA BETANIA DA SILVA - UNEB