Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: DANIELLY CRISTINA PEREIRA VIEIRA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : DANIELLY CRISTINA PEREIRA VIEIRA
DATE: 18/07/2023
LOCAL: Virtual (google meet)
TITLE:

“The kind of species that flies!”: the agency of the women in Marge Piercy, Ana Castillo and Carola Saavedra

KEY WORDS:

Agency. Woman. Female-authored literature. Decoloniality. Feminism.

PAGES: 196
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

This thesis focuses on the agency of female characters in three novels: Woman on the Edge of Time (1976), by Marge Piercy; So Far from God (1993), by Ana Castillo; and Com armas sonolentas, by Carola Saavedra (2018). The definition of agency used here is the one of the anthropologist Laura M. Ahearn (2001), who characterizes it as the capacity of socioculturally mediated action. Thus, my objective is to analyze the agentive processes, that is, the decision-making and actions of the characters that are permeated by the sociocultural context of each one of them. For this, this thesis is divided in a way that each character has a chapter, as each one mobilizes their action in different situations, which provided the exploration of sub-themes such as motherhood, wandering, violence, identity, spirituality, community, ancestry, cultural heritage, capitalist exploitation, social history, racism, patriarchy, the pathologization of poverty and the psychiatristization of women, among others, all analyzed from a feminist and decolonial perspective. Thus, I conclude that the three works represent women who, regardless of the bias of their actions — be they attitudes of resistance, survival or co-opted by neoliberalism and patriarchy — analyze the context, decide and, especially, act. As pointed out in the title of this thesis, quoting Ana Castillo, the women analyzed here are the kind of species that flies.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - ***.934.184-** - BRENDA CARLOS DE ANDRADE - UFRPE
Interno - 2174648 - ROLAND GERHARD MIKE WALTER
Externa à Instituição - ILDNEY DE FÁTIMA SOUZA CAVALCANTI - UFAL