Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: CALENE MANUELA DOS SANTOS

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : CALENE MANUELA DOS SANTOS
DATE: 11/06/2024
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência (meet.google.com/rrt-ivsz-oku)
TITLE:

STRONG MOTHERS, RESILIENT NARRATIVES: MATERNAL REPRESENTATIONS IN “STORIES OF LIGHT DECEPTIONS AND APPEARANCES”, BY CONCEiÇÃO EVARISTO

KEY WORDS:

Representations, motherhood, black wome

PAGES: 91
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

Motherhood, as an experience linked to the female image, is present in the human imagination and is represented in different cultural expressions. In turn, representations of this experience are intertwined with issues of gender, race and social condition, which throughout history have supported a series of stereotypes and idealizations about maternal roles, especially when related to black women. In traditional literature, we can observe the invisibility attributed to the experiences, protagonism and history of black women-mothers as a demonstration of this reality, as these women rarely occupied a prominent place in the literary pages, often being portrayed in a limited way by fragments patriarchal and racist attitudes that are remnants of slavery and colonialism. However, in our contemporary times, Afro-feminine literary production has contributed to reformulating this scenario. As a result, the purpose of this work is to investigate the maternal representations present in the short stories “Fios de Ouro”, “The sacred bread of children” and “The girl in the yellow dress”, present in the work “Stories of slight mistakes and similarities” (2016), by writer Conceição Evaristo. Our main objective is to explore the hypothesis that the black maternal representations present in these narratives converge to the resignification of the history of black women-mothers in relation to the racist and patriarchal stereotypes created by colonialist and slave-owning dictates in Brazil. The methodology used to develop this research is qualitative-interpretive in nature. In order to build a broader view of the investigative focus, two theoretical-critical strands were mobilized: Cultural Studies in postmodernity based on the contributions of Hall (2003,2016) to address issues inherent to the factors that affect the (re)formulations of representations, especially those related to the processes of racialization and production of stereotypes; Gender Studies, which claims to be aligned with Black Feminism, subsidized by Gonzalez, (2018, 2020); Collins (2015); Oyěwùmí (2016, 2021) and Vasconcelos (2015) to address gendered and racial issues intersected with the imagetic (re)signification of black women-mothers, in addition to Duarte (2009, 2014) and Cuti (2010) within the scope of Literary Criticism to guide reflections regarding literature.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - IEDO DE OLIVEIRA PAES
Interna - IVANDA MARIA MARTINS SILVA
Externa à Instituição - FRANCISCA ZULEIDE DUARTE DE SOUZA - UEPB