Banca de DEFESA: RENATA CAROLINE PENZANI

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STUDENT : RENATA CAROLINE PENZANI
DATE: 09/11/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Webconferência no Google Meet
TITLE:

“TRANS-AGE LITERATURA”: READINGS BEYOND THE AGES IN “TALES FROM OUTER SUBURBIA”, BY SHAUN TAN

KEY WORDS:

 Literatura Transetária. Crossover Literature. Crossover Fiction. Shaun Tan.

PAGES: 167
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Teoria Literária
SUMMARY:

Among the books recommended "for children", there is a welcome variety of stories that goes beyond age limits. Stories that make us understand childhood not as a chronological period, but as a way of being and a cultural object. This expanded vision of childhood inhabits the literature that overtakes a previously calculated audience. This research portrays how the “trans-age literature”, based on the so-called “crossover fiction” (Beckett, 2009), can be identified in the book “Tales from outer suburbia” (Contos de lugares distantes, 2012), by the australian writer and illustrator Shaun Tan. From the methodological perspective of Minayo (2007), we carried out an exploratory research based on analytical bibliography, divided into three axes: 1) Reflect on the multiple recipients of literature with potential for children's reception, based on the concept of “implicit reader”, and how it can be read in the work under analysis. Supported by assumptions from Reader-Response Criticism, we resorted to Iser (1996 and 1999), Jauss (1994), and also to the critical reading of Zilberman (2015); To examine how “trans-etharity” occurs in the reading of the work under analysis, we dialogue with contemporary perspectives about the relationships between book and reader, such as Penelas (2023), Squilloni (2023) and Bajour (2018). 2) Revisit theoretical productions about books that are not suitable for unique audiences. To do this, we start from a bibliographical review that explores different views on recipient issues in the literature, especially in Beckett (2009) and Andruetto (2012 and 2017); 3) Present the perceptions of writer and illustrator Shaun Tan, based on an unpublished interview carried out for this dissertation. We used three short stories by Tan (2012a) as our literary corpus: "Eric", "Undertow" and "Stick figure". In these readings, we map the way in which each text invokes multiple readers, seeking in every potential reader a possible dialogue with the element of childhood. and narrating associative elements of several age universes. We see in the texts possibilities to expand the mere association between child-childhood to find the plural childhoods that populate the so called “trans-age literature”,. Finally, we present an interview with Shaun Tan, carried out exclusively for this work. The interview was placed in dialogue with aspects of the theoretical basis used and also the non-fiction book "Creature" (TAN, 2022b), in order to provide an insight into the “trans-age literature”, from the dimension of authorship. We hope to contribute to the scientific production of this expanding field, which is theory and literary criticism focused on productions for children, bearing in mind the relevance of putting its multiple recipients on stage; a field that is increasingly situated as a place of paradoxically unclassifiable borders, of transitions and subjectivities, as are the subjects who cohabit it.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - IVANDA MARIA MARTINS SILVA
Interno - JOAO BATISTA PEREIRA
Externo à Instituição - CLÉCIO DOS SANTOS BUNZEN JÚNIOR - UFPE