Name: NATHALIA RIBEIRO TRAVIA
Publication date: 30/03/2022
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| MARIA MIRTIS CASER | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
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| KARINA DE REZENDE-FOHRINGER | External Examiner * |
| LUÍS EUSTÁQUIO SOARES | Internal Alternate * |
| MARIA MIRTIS CASER | Advisor * |
| SILVANA ATHAYDE PINHEIRO | External Alternate * |
| VITOR CEI SANTOS | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: This dissertation investigates Nélida Piñon's The republic of dreams (2005 [1984]), from the perspective of gender and memory. The novel presents an extensive and complex plot ─ concatenated from narratives in which the central theme identified is the issue of nationality ─ established by the scope of the perspective of three narrators ─ a female narrator, a male, and an unmarked narrator, in the third person. The republic of dreams is formed with a family space which is known as a dominant space, with its Brazilian households the combination of Galician, gypsy, and African origins. From it, the characters suffer distortions with that present, at the individual level, problems about the definitions of the historical-geographic space of a nationality. In other terms, each generation faces, from heterogeneous discursive formations,
the question of the integration or disintegration of social life. The specific objective is to identify its archives as articulators of stories, voices, and reminiscences of the fictional text to discuss, as a general objective, the constitution of a poetics of remains and displacements in the relationships between the characters. Hypothetically, in Piñon's text, the space that proposes the theme of nationality is called the republic of dreams in which it is argued that fixed files and scattered files (Pedrosa et. al, 2018) are like memories of this space. In this sense, present analysis of the novel The republic of dreams takes up contemporary lines of research linked to gender-sex-body issues, such as the feminist literary criticism of authors such as Naomi Moniz
(1993), Sherry Almeida (2006), Susan Quinlan (2010), Maria González (2016), etc. According to the theoretical-critical categories of Gayatri Spivak (1994), Heleieth Saffioti (2013), and Lélia Gonzalez (2020) highlight the impasse of the (im)possibility of the nationality attribute in the actions of/in the characters of the Piñon's imaginary. These, in turn, inform, in the activity or the passivity, (dis)locations (BHABHA, 1998) that lead to the poetic treatment given by fixed
or dispersed files of memory and consciousness, two themes discussed by Lélia Gonzalez (2020). This work is based on the categories of social ontology, mainly taken up in the realistic ethical-aesthetic thought of György Lukács on aesthetics as alienation or reification, both considered here as dispositive of social consciousness. It is intended to elaborate an analytical interpretation under the perspective of joint reflection on discursive strategies and narrative
categories, (un)constructed through the fictional configuration of nationality. As a hypothesis, it is investigated a simultaneous affirmation and transformation of the historical-geographic space through poetics of remains and displacements in the novel The republic of dreams.
