https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/5170 2026-04-04T20:40:30Z 2026-04-04T20:40:30Z 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 https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48594 2026-04-02T06:23:12Z 2025-09-09T00:00:00Z

Title: Deslimites do ser: análise da poesia de Manoel de Barros sob a ótica do perspectivismo ameríndio Abstract: This master's dissertation, entitled Deslimites do Ser: Análise da Poesia de Manoel de Barros sob a Ótica do Perspectivismo Ameríndio ("Limits Undone: An Analysis of Manoel de Barros’s Poetry through the Lens of Amerindian Perspectivism"), explores the connections between the poetic work of Manoel de Barros and the philosophical-anthropological framework of Amerindian perspectivism, as developed by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. The research focuses on the dissolution of boundaries between human and non-human realms in Barros's poetry, articulating a poetic ontology that challenges anthropocentrism and the dominance of Western rationality. It establishes a dialogue with Indigenous cosmologies, especially as presented in The Falling Sky, by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert, where knowledge is deeply rooted in the relationship with the non-human world and shamanic experience. The figure of the shaman, understood as a mediator of worlds and perspectives, becomes a central interpretative key for Barros’s poetics. The analysis draws on the poems Ninguém, Árvore, Borboletas, Formigas, A Borra, Biografia do Orvalho, A Menina que apareceu grávida de um gavião, Palavras, De Urubu, Lides de campear, Apanhador de desperdícios, and Canção de Ver. The dissertation argues that Barros’s poetic language enacts a process of desubjectivation and a horizontalization of relations with the world, establishing his work as a fertile ground for a sensitive ecology.

2025-09-09T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48593 2026-04-01T06:18:46Z 2026-02-19T00:00:00Z

Title: Pelos horrores do vale da sombra da morte: monstros e monstruosidades na ficção de Flannery O'Connor Abstract: This study examines the construction of monstrosity and the uncanny in the work of Flannery O’Connor, focusing on the short stories “A View of the Woods,” “Good Country People,” and “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.” Situated within the context of Southern Gothic, the research explores how the author mobilizes elements of the grotesque and violence in representing the moral, social, and cultural values of the southern United States, a region historically shaped by structural inequalities and the legacy of the postwar period. The choice of O’Connor as the object of study is justified both by the scarcity of scholarship on her work in Brazil and by the relevance of her narratives to the understanding of monstrosity as an aesthetic and ethical category. The central objective of this research is to examine how O’Connor constructs monstrous characters through actions, behaviors, and power relations, thereby revealing the presence of ordinary evil and the contradictions of the human condition, which are articulated through Freud’s concept of the uncanny. The methodology is bibliographic in nature and is based on close textual analysis of the selected short stories, articulated with theoretical contributions by Sigmund Freud, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, and Stephen T. Asma, as well as critical studies on Southern Gothic and the grotesque. The results indicate that monstrosity in O’Connor’s work is not limited to supernatural or physically deformed figures but emerges primarily from practices of violence, the absence of empathy, and the instrumentalization of the other. In the stories analyzed, male characters enact violence against women in situations of vulnerability, exposing the fragility of human relationships and the paradoxical coexistence of religious moral discourse and structures of domination. It is concluded that, by articulating the grotesque, violence, and monstrosity, Flannery O’Connor’s fiction offers a critical cartography of ordinary evil, challenging readers to confront the darker dimensions of human experience. Although grounded in a specific regional context, her literature transcends historical and geographical boundaries by engaging universal ethical and philosophical questions, revealing that monstrosity may manifest itself in the most ordinary actions and in seemingly familiar figures.

2026-02-19T00:00:00Z