http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/23840 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:49:19 GMT 2026-06-11T12:49:19Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86639 Título: “Porque a minha vida é isso: uma comunidade!”: ancestralidade, escolaridade, exílio e insílio em representações de mulheres quilombolas e de mulheres moçambicanas Autor(es): Lourenço, Valéria Correia Abstract: The present work “Because this is my life: a community!”: ancestry, education, exile and insilio in the representations of quilombola women and mozambican women is an attempt to echo the voice of quilombola women from Brazil in dialogue with Brazilian literature, the voice of Mozambican women in dialogue with Mozambican literature, in addition to intertwining all these voices and sewing them with my memory of being a black Brazilian woman. Initially, I analyze the representation of quilombos and quilombolas in Brazilian literature from the 19th century to the present day, specifically in prose; then, I highlight the Brazilian legislation that refers to quilombola communities to understand how this concept has changed over the centuries; and, through the narratives of quilombola women from Bahia, Ceará and Maranhão, I intend, in addition to defining what a quilombo is, being a quilombola, memory, ancestry and resistance through their own voices, to outline a possible definition for the term “quilombola literature” and, thus, expand what we know as Brazilian literature. In Mozambique, I did the same thing, analyzing the representations of Mozambican women in some prose texts from that country and then interviewing Mozambican women from the north and south of the country. In Brazil, I interviewed 16 (sixteen) women aged between 28 and 94, while in Mozambique, I interviewed 6 (six) women from the north and south of the country aged between 18 and 43. However, only a few interviews will be analyzed. I consider the interviewees as part of the theoretical framework, the methodological perspective, and as participants in the thesis. They are: Dona Gorete Gomes, Quilombo das Queimadas, Crateús, Ceará; Dorinete Serejo, Quilombo de Canelatiua, Alcântara, Maranhão; Felizarda Said, Nampula, Northern Mozambique; Gina Dantas, Fortaleza, Ceará; Irene de Jesus, Quilombo de Itamatatiua, Alcântara, Maranhão; Maria da Paixão [Dona Lia], Quilombo Flores, Bahia; Michelly Lourenço, Quilombo das Queimadas, Crateús, Ceará; Neide de Jesus, Quilombo de Itamatatiua, Alcântara, Maranhão; Roberta Xavier, Quilombo das Queimadas, Crateús, Ceará; Rosa Francisco, coordinator at ASCHA, Nampula, Northern Mozambique; Sofia Abdallah, Maputo, Southern Mozambique; Zena Alberto, Nampula, Northern Mozambique; Yara Costa, Northern Mozambique; Yara Marcelino, Maputo, Southern Mozambique. By bringing these conversations into our work, they are intertwined with literary texts and my memories to understand how all our stories come together and move apart. The text will have a theoretical dialogue with Abdias Nascimento (2016; 2019), Alfredo Wagner Berno de Almeida (2008), Beatriz Nascimento (2021), Conceição Evaristo (2010), Edmilson de Almeida Pereira (2010), Francisco Noa (2020; 2022), Nazir Ahmed Can (2020), Grada Kilomba (2019), Leda Maria Martins (2021), Lélia Gonzalez (2019), Regina Dalcastagnè (2012), among other authors. However, the interviews with the women will also be considered as theoretical input for this work. Tipo: Tese Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86639 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86589 Título: Crônica de uma morte anunciada e O amor nos tempos do cólera, de Gabriel García Márquez e a construção de personagens femininas na literatura e no cinema Autor(es): Xavier, Larissa Pinheiro Abstract: This thesis analyzes the construction of female characters in the novels Chronicle of a Death Foretold (2011) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), by Gabriel García Márquez, as well as their film adaptations directed by Francesco Rosi (1987) and Mike Newell (2007), respectively. The objective is to understand how literature and cinema represent the social role of women in socio-historical contexts marked by Latin American patriarchy. The research is based on the hypothesis that the comparative relationship between these novels and their respective films reveals distinct processes in the construction of female characters, highlighting the centrality of women’s social condition within the historical and cultural tensions of Colombian society. The study seeks to identify continuities, shifts, and reconfigurations in the representation of the feminine in both books and films. In the first analytical stage, the study contextualizes the literary, journalistic, and cultural trajectory of García Márquez, situating him within the Latin American Boom and within the historical transformations of Colombia between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It demonstrates that his work articulates fiction and social reality by incorporating historical, cultural, and political elements into the narrative structure. It is also shown that the author’s background – marked by journalism, political engagement, and the experience of a matriarchal genealogy – contributed to the creation of dense and symbolically structuring female characters. This trajectory establishes the theoretical foundations that support the analysis of the selected works, drawing on authors such as Fuentes (1974), Rama (1982; 2001), Sánchez (2009), and Monegal (1972). Subsequently, the study examines the social representation of women in both novels. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold (2011), the analysis focuses on the representation of honor as a mechanism of control over the female body, demonstrating how the female character becomes a symbol of patriarchal morality and reveals a society complicit in violence legitimized by tradition. In Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), the trajectory of female characters is investigated, highlighting the conflict between social expectations, bourgeois marriage, and emotional autonomy. Although subject to rigid norms, these characters develop strategies of resistance that produce symbolic shifts within the patriarchal order. In this process, authors such as Zolin (2009), Ruffinelli (1985), Mesa (1995), Gama (1995), and Segato (2016) contribute to the theoretical framework. Finally, the film adaptations are analyzed based on contemporary theories of adaptation studies, which challenge traditional notions of fidelity between literary and cinematic works. The analysis draws on theoretical principles formulated by Hutcheon (2013), Stam (2005), M. Martin (2011), and Xavier (2003). The study demonstrates that, in the adaptation process, directors make aesthetic and narrative choices that in some cases attenuate the critical complexity present in García Márquez’s novels. It concludes that, in the novels, the feminine assumes a structuring role in the representation of patriarchy and gender inequalities in Latin American literature. In the film adaptations, however, these representations are reconfigured according to the specificities of audiovisual language, revealing both continuities and transformations in the construction of female characters. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86589 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86494 Título: “A precisão conduz a gente, doutor”: migrações e narrativas de resistência em Luiz Ruffato Autor(es): Rodrigues, Reginaldo de Souza Abstract: This thesis analyzes the narratives of resistance in Luiz Ruffato’s work, emphasizing the centrality of migration, with a focus on the novels Inferno provisório (2016) and Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você (2009). The objective is to investigate how the author fictionalizes multiple forms of displacement and the transformation of the Brazilian urban worker, highlighting his literary project of social critique. We proceed from the premise that Ruffato’s work constructs a critical vision of society by centering what Jessé de Souza (2018) defines as the batalhadores (strivers) class — subjects who struggle incessantly for recognition and against falling into the structural underclass (ralé). Methodologically, the study adopts a hybrid character by incorporating Jeanne Favret-Saada’s (2005) notions of “being affected” and the debate on individual trajectories proposed by Suely Kofes (2004). This approach articulates literary analysis with the researcher's own migratory experience, recognizing that the subject's opacity and the affects of displacement inform a critical reading of the work. The concept of the narrative of resistance is initially explored based on Alfredo Bosi (2002), as both a theme and a process inherent to writing, but is expanded through the propositions of Augusto Sarmento-Pantoja (2023; 2024), which allow for an understanding of Ruffato’s writing as a testimonial gesture and an anarchival act of reconstructing historically erased memories. The discussion on uprootedness and identity dialogues with the decentering of the subject in late modernity, according to Stuart Hall (2003; 2006), and the incurable fracture of exile in Edward Said (2003). This theoretical framework is deepened by Christina Sharpe’s (2023) theory of “the wake,” through which Ruffato’s work is read as a labor of vigil that exposes the persistence of colonial and structural violence in the characters' daily lives. The relevance of this work lies in its contribution to the critical reception of a fundamental author in the contemporary scene, highlighting the complexity of migration in his oeuvre. Thus, this thesis seeks to reframe the reading of Ruffatian themes from a perspective that values the strength of the migrant's voice in their struggle for belonging and survival. The analysis demonstrates that, in Ruffato, migration functions as a mechanism for reproducing precariousness, and that the literary form of his work aesthetically materializes the uprootedness and the struggle for belonging of migrant workers. The migrants are, therefore, the synthesis of the social tensions fictionalized by the author. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86494 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86463 Título: A espectropoética de Elena Ferrante em Um amor incômodo, Dias de abandono e A filha perdida Autor(es): Silva, Taynan Leite da Abstract: This thesis examines the presence of specters and the application of spectropoetics in the work of Elena Ferrante, with a focus on the novels Troubling Love (1992), The Days of Abandonment (2002), and The Lost Daughter (2006). These works, collected under the title Chronicles of Heartbreak, inaugurate the author's literary project and are examined in light of the concept of specter developed by Jacques Derrida in Specters of Marx (1994). The investigation is based on the hypothesis that the specters that permeate these narratives – absent figures, disturbing presences, displaced bodies, and lingering voices – act as manifestations of trauma, memory, heritage, and female subjectivity in crisis. The central objective is to understand how these spectral elements articulate in the construction of a poetics that tensions the representation of the female experience, especially in the relationships between mothers and daughters, in the body, and motherhood. The methodology adopted is qualitative and analytical, grounded in a comparative and interdisciplinary approach that integrates literary studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and gender studies. The textual analysis is conducted considering the theories of Derrida (1994), Julia Kristeva (1982), Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault (2013), and other feminist authors such as Adrienne Rich (1995), Luce Irigaray (2017), Hélène Cixous (2022), and Judith Butler (2019; 2021). The results indicate that Ferrante uses spectrality not only as an aesthetic resource but also as a critical and ethical strategy to deconstruct patriarchal models of representation. The novels' protagonists are haunted by dead or absent mothers, abandoned daughters, and men who abandon; they carry in their bodies and discourses the marks of a traumatic affective and symbolic legacy. In this way, the specter emerges as a literary category capable of exposing the tensions between presence and absence, visible and invisible, past and future, composing a poetics of destabilization and resistance. We conclude that Ferrantian spectropoetics constitutes a mode of writing that rejects linearity, the unity of the subject, and linguistic stability. Instead, it proposes a literature operating through ruins, traces, borderline and unstable zones, reflecting the multiple layers of female subjectivity. Tipo: Tese Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86463 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z