https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/20870 Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:33:35 GMT 2026-09-11T13:33:35Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/50227 Title: Leitor de devaneios: imagens poéticas em A prisioneira, de Marcel Proust Abstract: This thesis analyzes the novel The Prisoner (2011), the fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, through a methodology grounded in Gaston Bachelard’s phenomenology of reverie (1998). The Bachelardian poetic reverie is applied not merely as a theoretical category, but as a praxis of active reading capable of tracing the work’s imagery flow and memorialist poetry. This perspective provides an understanding of how poetic images unfold within the reader-dreamer’s memory, engendering new images and establishing a creative experience. To sustain this methodological horizon, the study articulates conceptual operators: Maurice Blanchot’s fragmentation (1990). He structures a critical investigation into time, memory, ephemerality, and the physical boundaries of the act of writing, composing a theoretical framework that directly dialogues with the Proustian texture. The research demonstrates how the narrator constructs a path of self-knowledge through romantic experiences and art, while simultaneously problematizing the notions of time and reality. The study finds tha Proustian temporality is organized by affects and involuntary memory, establishing its own logic of perception and representation of the world. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/50227 2026-07-23T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/50192 Title: Para além da Colônia Penal: corpos metamórficos e poética da insubmissão em A ponte, O novo advogado, Um relatório para uma academia e A metamorfose, de Franz Kafka Abstract: In recent decades, a fruitful debate concerning the connection and interrelation between the theme of the body and other fields of knowledge has reached modernity and contemporaneity, presenting increasingly dense levels of complexity. To further explore the problematic nature of the boundaries crossing discussions about the body, and to incorporate inquiries that rekindle the theme of metamorphoses, this study seeks—through the lens of insubmission—to analyze the concept of polysystems applied to literary analysis. Franz Kafka, whose literary production is situated within the context of modernity and contemporaneity, updates the theme of metamorphoses, placing special emphasis on the nature of the body and its ramifications as body/individual and body/society. The literary corpus of this research comprises the following texts by Franz Kafka: The Bridge, The New Advocate, A Report to an Academy, and The Metamorphosis. This study aims to analyze the compositional elements of these texts to establish a dialogue between the theme of the body and the legal issues raised throughout the narratives. The objective is to investigate how metamorphoses, as a literary device, aid in understanding fundamental aspects of the selected short stories, while also searching reader reception for evidence of a critique grounded in the confrontation between the logic of the body, formal logic, and/or the logic of the legal order. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the connection between the literary corpus and the question of the absurd regarding the situations experienced by the characters. The analysis highlights situations of resignation and a suffocating paralysis experienced by the characters in the face of events. Beyond perplexity, readers and researchers are left with the following question: what reasons compel them to endure such absurd conditions? In the essay Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer(2005), Michael Löwy asserts that the corpus engenders a critical dimension toward social structure and bureaucracy, revealing an insubmissive worldview through the metamorphosis of the characters. The methodological framework of this research, anchored in qualitative literary analysis, is based on a critical reading of the selected texts in dialogue with theoretical-critical references on Franz Kafka. The structure of this work is organized into the following axes: First, Second, Third, and Fourth Movements, which are interconnected by the theme and object of the research. The term "movement" chosen for the sections of this investigation also aims to emphasize the metamorphic nature of the dissertation’s own body (text), given that "movement" is a physics concept describing when a body changes its position relative to a frame of reference over a certain time interval. It is precisely this phenomenon that occurs during the reading of a text: there is a body in motion, and therefore, a metamorphosis of both the body of the text and the body of the reader Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/50192 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49064 Title: O insólito caminho da ancestralidade em Conceição Evaristo Abstract: This thesis aims to analyze how Conceição Evaristo's literary and essayistic trajectory contributes to the understanding of the unusual narratives present in the work Histórias de Leves Enganos e Parecenças (2017). It starts from the hypothesis that such narratives do not fully fit into the traditional categories of the fantastic field, such as Animist Realism or Fantastic Realism, as they incorporate Black memories and ancestries that challenge these classifications and allow for a reading more aligned with Black-Brazilian life-writing. To support this proposition, the research also analyzes the works Ponciá Vicêncio (2003), Olhos d’água (2016), and Becos da Memória (2017), seeking to demonstrate the maturation of the categories of memory and ancestry throughout the author's writing. It is thus argued that this narrative reconfiguration promotes an epistemological reorganization in the reading of Conceição Evaristo's work and expands the possibilities for understanding black-fantastic narratives in Brazil. Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49064 2026-03-31T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49005 Title: Corpos em disputa e representação (de)colonial: as masculinidades negras na ficção de Geraldo Ribas e James Baldwin Abstract: This research aims to compare the configuration of black masculinities – as (de)colonial instances – and their effects on the fictional representation of racialized bodies in Geraldo Ribas’s O laço encarnado and James Baldwin’s Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone. Initially, we examine the concepts of coloniality and decoloniality to demonstrate how the colonial matrix of power constructs, in countries marked by the racial experience, a system of oppression against the bodies of Black men. Such a regime is grounded in the ascendancy of hegemonic masculinity over other expressions of masculinity, operating through institutional decimation and a sophisticated discursive apparatus of image control that extends to the literary domain. Subsequently, through the concepts of mimesis/representation and the control of imaginaries, we contextualize the historical, social, and cultural conditions that guided the portrayal of Black men throughout the history of Brazilian and American literatures – an exercise that becomes essential for analyzing the masculinities in the works of Ribas and Baldwin which, despite being released in the same period, present profoundly distinct representations of Black bodies. Finally, we privilege the analysis of Ribas's text, which, by highlighting the Black male body as still confined to the bed and labor, reveals a colonial belonging; meanwhile, Baldwin, by proposing a multidimensional Black male body, subverts the control of imaginaries, enveloping his work in a deeply decolonial atmosphere. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/49005 2026-06-03T00:00:00Z