https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/5170 2026-06-25T15:10:42Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48766 Title: Memorial descritivo: caminhos Abstract: This document contains some of my most significant memories, which have shaped the course of my academic development. I have avoided a personal tone whenever possible. Its submission to the Instituto de Letras e Linguística at the Federal University of Uberlândia is a partial requirement for promotion from the rank of Associate Professor IV to Full Professor in the Higher Education Teaching Career. It also presents important aspects of my career as a professor of higher education at the aforementioned institute. 2026-03-11T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48764 Title: Memórias de uma eterna aprendiz: caminhos, desafios e construções 2026-05-28T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48755 Title: Mulheres subalternas: interseccionalidade, re-existência e decolonialidade nas personagens femininas de Torto Arado Abstract: This study analyzes the representations of subalternity of female characters in the novel Torto Arado, by Itamar Vieira Junior, investigating the intersections between gender, race, class, and coloniality. The aim is to present how the protagonists Bibiana and Belonísia, black peasant women, are simultaneously constituted as subjects traversed by multiple forms of systemic oppression and as agents of resistance and re-existence. A qualitative methodology is adopted, grounded in textual analysis and critical bibliographic review, mobilizing the theoretical framework of feminist and decolonial studies, with emphasis on the contributions of Gayatri Spivak (1988), Judith Butler (1993), Patricia Hill Collins (1990), Lélia Gonzalez (1984), Silvia Federici (2017), and Michel Foucault (1975). The analysis reveals that the work transcends the merely denunciatory dimension of Brazilian social literature, configuring complex female characters who re-signify historically imposed silence as a strategy of symbolic and political resistance. The application of the intersectional perspective highlights the ways in which these women simultaneously confront the structures of institutional racism, patriarchy, and capitalist economic exploitation. The fundamental role of jarê, a religious practice of Afro-Brazilian origin present in the narrative, is identified as a privileged space for female agency and identity reconstruction, constituting a form of epistemic resistance to hegemonic Western paradigms. It is evident that Torto Arado integrates the corpus of contemporary Brazilian literature of decolonial and feminist orientation by giving visibility and protagonism to the historically silenced voices of Black, peasant, and subaltern women. The novel articulates a critical epistemology that questions the Eurocentric and colonial foundations of the national literary tradition, contributing to the emergence of new interpretative paradigms of Brazilian social reality. 2026-02-20T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48754 Title: O feminicídio de Rebecca, de Daphne du Maurier, em duas adaptações cinematográficas Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the representation of femicide in Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca (1938) and in two of its film adaptations: the film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1940) and the version directed by Ben Wheatley (2020). The study is based on the premise that the death of the character Rebecca de Winter constitutes a femicide — a gender-motivated homicide — and examines how this crime is represented and transformed across the different versions of the narrative. The research combines Adaptation Studies, drawing on authors such as Linda Hutcheon and Robert Stam, with Feminist Theory applied to literature and film, and also studies on femicide by authors such as Jane Caputi, Diana Russell and Rita Segato. The methodology consists of a comparative analysis of the novel and the two film adaptations, taking into account their historical contexts as well as their narrative and visual strategies. The findings indicate that all three works construct biased representations of Rebecca, largely mediated by discourses that seek to justify or minimize her death. While the novel and the 1940 adaptation maintain some symbolic punishment for the male protagonist, represented by the destruction of Manderley, the 2020 adaptation removes this ambiguity and presents a romantic ending in which femicide is narratively absolves, reinforcing male impunity. 2026-02-06T00:00:00Z