https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/20870 2026-05-09T05:41:22Z 2026-05-09T05:41:22Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48659 2026-04-29T06:17:25Z 2025-07-17T00:00:00Z

Title: Mulheres no sertão: sonho e silêncio representação da figura feminina nos romances regionalistas O Tronco (Bernardo Élis) e Jazigo dos Vivos (Geraldo França de Lima) Abstract: The proposal of this thesis is to analyze the representation of the female figure in the novels O tronco by Bernardo Élis, and Jazigo dos vivos by Geraldo França de Lima, in order to demonstrate the historical prejudiced view of the female figure, inherited from the patriarchy, and the similarities and differences between the respective regionalist novels. For a long time, women were seen as inferior beings, created from man and to serve him, capable of becoming evil beings. In the novels analyzed, the female figure still appears represented under the influences of the patriarchal system that was still very present in Goiás in the 1950s and Minas Gerais in the 1960s. To understand this inferiorization of the female figure, we sought to identify the historical-religious roots of the patriarchy that served as a structuring and legitimizing element of such practice. The approach started from a reading of the popular imagination and some historical excerpts related to the role of women in Brazilian society. From there, we proceeded to analyze the novels O tronco and Jazigo dos vivos, seeking to identify how women were represented and what contributed to this occurring. Finally, a comparison was made between the two novels in order to identify whether there was any similarity in the way Bernardo Élis and Geraldo França de Lima represented the female figure in their respective novels and what corroborated this occurring or not.

2025-07-17T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48617 2026-04-09T06:17:33Z 2026-02-27T00:00:00Z

Title: Ancestralidade e identidade negra feminina em Conceição Evaristo, Alzira Rufino, Alda Espírito Santo e Conceição Lima Abstract: This dissertation engages in a critical discussion of literary production authored by Black women. The study mobilizes four fundamental female voices in the composition of a corpus comprising the poetic works Poemas da Recordação e outros Movimentos by Conceição Evaristo (2021), Eu, Mulher Negra, Resisto by Alzira Rufino (1998), É nosso o solo Sagrado da Terra by Alda Espírito Santo (1978/2010), and A dolorosa raiz de Micondó by Conceição Lima (2012). Taken together, the analysis of these works highlights the constitution of an intellectual praxis grounded in ancestry and the recovery of legacies of resistance against white, racist, classist, and sexist hegemony—byproducts of the structures of domination inherent to the colonial system. Fundamentally, this research posits poetry as a device of existence capable of unveiling and problematizing the complex matrix of historical oppression, foregrounding poetic discourses that seek to destabilize and reconfigure epistemological standards traditionally imposed upon Black women within social, political, and cultural spheres. Supported by an interdisciplinary theoretical framework encompassing studies on ancestry, identity, colonialities, postcolonial theory, and intersectional Black feminism, this dissertation seeks to contribute to the visibility of a body of literature that directly confronts narratives legitimizing colonialism in Brazil and across the African continent. These works engage in redefining Black female subjectivity, dismantling pre-established images through marginalized corporeality and vocality, resulting in the emergence of a new epistemology experienced through the authors’ “escrevivência” (writing-as-lived-experience), which promotes the decolonization of speech and inscribes an identity substance of (re)existence. Therefore, the primary objective of this dissertation is to analyze Black women’s writing through the lens of ancestry as an axis of identity affirmation, examining its incidence in the configuration of the represented subjectivities. Methodologically, the research is grounded in an extensive bibliographic survey incorporating scholars such as Joel Candau (2011, 2021), Manuel Castells (2000), Kabengele Munanga (2006, 2008), Neusa Santos Sousa (1983), Stuart Hall (2006, 2014), Caio Prado Júnior (2000), Emília Viotti da Costa (1988), Aimé Césaire (2020), Frantz Fanon (2002, 2008), Aníbal Quijano (2005), Lélia Gonzalez (1988, 2020), Nelson Maldonado- Torres (2022), Walter Mignolo (2003, 2014), Sueli Carneiro (2003, 2019), Catherine Walsh, Grada Kilomba, Gloria Anzaldúa (2000), Kimberlé Crenshaw (2004), Carla Akotirene (2019), and Patricia Hill Collins (2002, 2019), among others of equal relevance to the attainment of the study’s results. In this regard, it was verified that these writings constitute an act of identity refoundation, in which the pain of the historical past is transmuted and metabolized into a political and subjective force essential to the construction of a new existential and social order.

2026-02-27T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48599 2026-04-03T06:21:02Z 2026-02-25T00:00:00Z

Title: Das águas ao céu: um estudo do personagem Joaquim na tessitura e na iconografia de Vereda da Salvação, de Jorge Andrade Abstract: This study undertakes an investigation into the representation of the character Joaquim in Jorge Andrade’s dramaturgical work Vereda da Salvação, through an articulation of textual and iconographic analysis. The inquiry begins with a biographical contextualization of the playwright and an examination of the social and political transformations in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s, which informed the real events that inspired the rural plot of the play. Particular attention is devoted to Andrade’s stage directions, which function as a crucial component of his dramaturgy, detailing settings, costumes, and gestures, while simultaneously constructing Joaquim as a figure marked by hallucination. Yet, within the dialogical fabric of the text, Joaquim emerges with greater complexity, embodying practices that suggest spirituality as a pathway to confronting social injustice. The analysis further encompasses a comparative study of the official photographs from the two productions of the play directed by Antunes Filho in 1964 and 1993, preserved in the memorial archive of Sesc São Paulo. These images underscore, both in the initial staging and in the revival following Andrade’s death, the religious atmosphere and collective ecstasy that permeate the work, thereby illuminating how the actors’ performances render visible and intensify the dramatic dimensions of faith. Through this juxtaposition of text and image, memory and performance, the study contends that Joaquim in Vereda da Salvação, by surrendering to the supernatural and religious ecstasy, transcends his social condition as a sharecropper and is projected as a symbol of the pursuit of social justice and spiritual liberation.

2026-02-25T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48598 2026-04-03T06:20:58Z 2026-02-20T00:00:00Z

Title: Experiência e escrita feminina no século XX sob o olhar de Katherine Mansfield e Marguerite Duras Abstract: This thesis presents an analysis of writings by Katherine Mansfield and Marguerite Duras, writers of the early and late twentieth centuries, respectively, who, bringing together memory and fiction, represented women’s writing and experience in a century marked by two wars and profound social transformations. To this end, the corpus consists of Mansfield’s memorialistic texts Diaries and Letters and Duras’s War Notebooks and Other Texts and Writing, as well as the fictional works Bliss, by Mansfield, and The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, by Duras, in dialogue with other texts that illuminate the themes addressed. Initially, we revisit their childhoods and family experiences (especially motherhood), observing how these primary relationships shaped these women and how they problematized the roles expected of them. In the field of affective relationships, we encounter characters who, moving from innocence to sensual maturation and subverting conventional relationship models, expressed their desires and found happiness in non-traditional relationships. As a theoretical framework, the corpus is analyzed in light of feminist criticis, especially gynocriticism, as well as theories of memory and life writing, demonstrating how the literature of these two women, with different styles and in distinct contexts, engages in dialogue on themes involving women’s lives. Through this redemptive form of writing, we observe how literature helped women survive the crises of the twentieth century and recount part of the history of the past century from their point of view defying norms to survive the uncertain period and bequeathing to us, women of the Twenty-first century, important reflections on the struggles we still need to face.

2026-02-20T00:00:00Z