Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: WELLINGTON JOSE DE MELO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : WELLINGTON JOSE DE MELO
DATE: 06/12/2021
LOCAL: Virtual
TITLE:

The Failure of Telemachus: Images of Patriarchy in the Latin American Novel

KEY WORDS:

Latin American Novel; Patriarchy; Thematology.

PAGES: 114
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

The main objective of this thesis is to analyse representations of patriarchy and its crisis present in a set of Latin American novels in Spanish or Portuguese, published between the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. The narrators or main characters of these novels are children or parents who see themselves under the shadow of the paradigm of patriarchy and suffer its consequences. For the definition of patriarchy adopted in this thesis, I mainly take into account the works of Lerner (2019), Beauvoir (1970), Delphy (2009) and Plastino (2016, 2017). In the scope of this work, I consider patriarchy not only as a social formation or a historically constituted system, but also as a long-lasting phenomenon, which affects the most different aspects of society and is configured in a hegemonic mentality, updated from the paradigm of modernity. Through an eclectic approach, with a non-hierarchical comparative nature, I prioritised the identification of constants and variations of themes, reasons and topoi, such as telemachy, nostos, revenge, the search for the disappeared or the request of an authority figure. The contributions of Etiemble (1963), Guillén (1985) and Nitrini (2015) were especially important for this analysis. In order to approach these thematic aspects, we first use the character Telemachus as a guiding thread and guiding thematic element. He represents the son in search of his father and returning home to integrate the violence of the patriarchal world. Second, we evoke the theme of Hamlet as the modern update of the son theme: now, he hesitates to fulfil the father's demands or integrate with the paradigm, and this leads to his downfall. Regarding Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo (1955) as a starting point, we advance through a Latin American tradition of telemaico-hamletian doubles in their journeys of integration or rejection of patriarchy. Additionally, the topos of the house was also important in the analysis of part of the selected novels; the house as an ambivalent sign, at the same time a space for maintaining the status quo for the patriarch and a locus horrendus for the son. Within the scope of this work, the house is a small-scale representation of a topos that reflects the Latin American contradictions, which I provisionally name Ruinamérica. As I intend to demonstrate, the novels' characters of the children and parents oscillate between demiurges of change, victims of oppression by the patriarchy, or its faithful defenders. From the comparison of the works in the selected corpus, we finally identified a productive updating and reinvention of the themes focused on the Latin American novel.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 036.934.184-89 - BRENDA CARLOS DE ANDRADE - UFRPE
Interno - 2291987 - ALFREDO ADOLFO CORDIVIOLA
Externa à Instituição - THERESA KATARINA SOUZA E SILVA BACHMANN - UPE