Banca de DEFESA: MALINI DE FIGUEIREDO FERRAZ

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STUDENT : MALINI DE FIGUEIREDO FERRAZ
DATE: 31/08/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: RECIFE - ON LINE
TITLE:

Maternity and subversion: the representation of being a mother and being a woman in The Lost Daughter, by Elena Ferrante.

KEY WORDS:

Elena Ferrante; Maternity; Character; Woman.

PAGES: 119
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literaturas Estrangeiras Modernas
SUMMARY:

With the purpose of discussing the representation of being a woman and being a mother in The Lost Girl, from Elena Ferrante, this work adopted the character as a category of analysis, from which it sought to identify the forms of motherhood representation in the novel. This approach was guided by the dialectical approach and theoretical assumptions established by Lukács (2000), based on the discussion of the problematic hero, and Bakhtin (2002), based on the concepts of dialogism, ideologism, polyphony, and carnivalization. The reflection on being a woman was anchored mainly on the theoretical foundations of Simone de Beauvoir (2006), who discusses the woman as a set of biological, psychological, and historical factors, and Judith Butler (2003), who addresses the multiplicity of the subject and the definitions imposed by a heteronormative structure within a binary system. Further on, motherhood was approached under the historical and social analysis of Elisabeth Badinter (1985, 2011), who problematizes the maternal ideal and the figure of the good mother as intrinsic conditions to female subjectivity, and Bell Hooks (2019), who deals with parenting in modernity, and finally, Mariele Rios (2019), who exposes the conflicts inherent to motherhood. Ultimately, the representation of being a woman and being a mother was analyzed from the point of view of the protagonist - Leda - who lives in conflict about her way of mothering and her place in the world due to the social dictates that impose women to the domestic environment and that differ with their personal aspirations. Through the analysis performed, it was possible to understand motherhood as a social construct, in which the woman is predetermined for reproduction, masking its negative aspects, such as loss of identity, exhaustion, submission, and oppression.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 472971 - JOAO BATISTA PEREIRA
Interna - 1526389 - BRENDA CARLOS DE ANDRADE
Externa à Instituição - AMANDA RAMALHO DE FREITAS BRITO - UFPB