https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/18799 2026-05-02T23:44:40Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44069 Título: Corpo político, espaços poéticos: leituras da performance, do espaço e dos silêncios em Torto Arado, de Itamar Vieira Junior Autor(es): Rosa, Luiz Fernando Primeiro Orientador: de Souza, Carla Dameane Pereira Abstract: This dissertation seeks to discuss the relationship between literature, ontology, phenomenology, performance, and space in the novel Torto Arado (2019), by Itamar Vieira Junior. To this end, the study will draw on a classical theoretical foundation from literature, philosophy, and sociology, as well as elements that may contribute to the discussion of body and space. Furthermore, with regard to the content of the novel and its context of production, the theoretical foundation is rooted in cultural studies—particularly those related to the performance of the Black population in capitalist society, as addressed in Performances do Tempo Espiralar (2021), by Leda Maria Martins—and in the poetic and ontological construction of space in The Poetics of Space (2008), by Gaston Bachelard. Based on this framework, the study aims to explore the construction of Black representations and performances, their ontologies and phenomenologies, and their relationship with land/nature. Accordingly, regarding methodology, the analysis will be based on the subjective selection of excerpts from the book, supported by the theoretical framework developed throughout the Graduate Program in Literature and Culture. Therefore, this research will have an interpretive character and will take into account a socio-historical perspective for the study of this work within contemporary Brazilian literature. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Dissertação 2025-10-30T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43887 Título: O labirinto de ariadne: Elena Ferrante, Autoria e crítica Autor(es): Santana, Allana Emilia Lima de Primeiro Orientador: Azevedo, Luciene Almeida de Abstract: Elena Ferrante has become one of the best-known contemporary writers of the early 21st century. Although her first work, L’Amore Molesto, dates to 1992, it was with the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first volume of the tetralogy of the same name, that the author rose to bestseller status. In academia, her works are also highly respected, judging by the prolific critical production about them. This dissertation analyzes the first book of the tetralogy and the critical reception of the Italian writer's work (Zarzar, 2019; Ricciardi, 2021; Secches, 2020), under the assumption that there is a continuous movement between the author's fictional production and her criticism, a process that undergoes great analytical intervention by the author herself. Given this premise, the publication of In the Margins (2023), which consists of lectures given by Ferrante in which the author comments on her writing process, and Frantumaglia (2003), a collection of letters, interviews, and comments by the author about her work, is of fundamental importance to this study. Although Elena Ferrante is a pseudonym and the author refuses to reveal her true identity, it is striking how her stance as a commentator on her own work serves as a mainstay for critical reception that favors terms such as Smarginatura and Frantumaglia, which the author herself considers fundamental to the creative process. Thus, this dissertation seeks to discuss what is metaphorically referred to here as ouroboros, investigating the cyclical movement of the relationship between fictional creation and Ferrante's critical intervention in her critical fortune. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Dissertação 2025-09-08T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43766 Título: O ruído, a voz e o ato: uma leitura das obras Cartas para a minha avó, Cartas para a minha mãe e Cartas a uma negra através da escrevivência como (re)construção da memória cultural Autor(es): Santos, Tainara Cecília Pereira Primeiro Orientador: Duarte, Rosinês de Jesus Abstract: This dissertation is the result of an analysis of the letters written by black women in Teresa Cárdenas' Letters to My Mother (2010), Djamila Ribeiro's Letters to My Grandmother (2021) and Françoise Ega's Letters to a Black Woman (2021). Writing letters is one of the ways these women have found to insert themselves into a world that shuns them, to echo a silenced voice and (re)construct the cultural memory of other women who will come after them. After all, they are black women writing to other black women in order to trace an ancestral dialog that unites the steps of the past, present and future. Based on the hypothesis that these women's writing is a transgressive act that breaks down the social barriers imposed on black women, in this work we seek to understand how they have found in writing a place of insertion into the world, a possible place to make their voices echo and reach other women so that they can have a different life, possible and subject to choices and steps outlined by themselves. To this end, this bibliographical research included a literature review of the works studied, as well as dialog with intellectuals such as Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Grada Kilomba, bell hooks, Katiuscia Ribeiro, Vilma Piedade, Paul Ricoeur, Muniz Sodré, Maya Angelou, Gloria Anzaldúa and crossing paths with Conceição Evaristo and Carolina Maria de Jesus to think about writing, the place that black women occupy in society and the importance of writing letters so that they can insert themselves into the world and thus change the imposed narrative that always places them in a place of subalternity. From reading the letters, it was possible to see that the writing of the black women who sent the letters studied has a social marker intrinsic to it, which we understand as “escrevivência”, the writing of women marked by their lives and experiences, not only personal, but collective. It was also found that the letters are a safe and welcoming space for black women's narratives and, from them, a network is created where they can observe the past, rethink the present and remake the future, reconstructing the cultural memory of an entire community that, by questioning imposed historiography, claims its place in the world and directly confronts oppressions such as racism, sexism and silencing. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Dissertação 0007-07-14T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43744 Título: Elaborar o presente: memória e linguagem no romance No fundo do oceano, os animais invisíveis, de Anita Deak Autor(es): Freire, Paulo Alexandre Trindade Primeiro Orientador: Santos, Mônica de Menezes Abstract: This dissertation investigates the role of literature in the construction of memory as a form of resistance to trauma, through the character Pedro Naves in the novel No Fundo do Oceano, Os Animais Invisíveis, by Anita Deak (2020). To this end, a discussion is built on literary language and its proximity to the language of the unconscious, in an effort to interpret the signs and metaphors constructed throughout the novel's narrative. The first part undertakes a more detailed reading on the notions of memory and resistance, from the psychoanalytic approach, seeking a synthesis based on the possibility of using them as means of literary intervention in social traumas, more specifically that related to the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985) in the context of the Araguaia Guerrilla War (1972-1975), as represented in Deak's novel. The second part reflects on language, time, and the relationship between Nature and Culture as represented in textual form, the novel's language construction, and in which way the text is influenced by the narrator-character Pedro Naves himself. To achieve this, the concept of Amerindian Perspectivism as developed by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2018) is borrowed, reflecting on the possibility of using it to read Deak's novel. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Dissertação 0009-09-04T00:00:00Z