As estratégias dos best-sellers e os processos de produção de autobiografias de mulheres muçulmanas
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2015-03-31
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The study aims to understand the ways in which best-selling autobiographies by Muslim
women are produced. As a representative corpus, the books Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali;
Princess, by Jean Sasson/Sultana; and I am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai/Christina Lamb
were selected. Using Pierre Bourdieu's methodology – for whom a literary work should not be
studied only by its text, but also by its insertion and circulation in various fields (literary,
political, social) – the study conjectures that these narratives of life, since manufactured in the
West and founded on the logic of the cultural industry of mass production of popular
literature, are presented to the public circumscribed by neo-Orientalist discourses of the clash
of civilizations. We refer to the discourses displayed in the post-September 11, 2001, which,
reiterating the Orientalist discourse criticized by Edward Said, divided the world into superior
West versus inferior Middle East. Therefore, we investigate, in the first chapter, the
implications of the discourse of War on Terror to the commercial interest in personal
narratives of Muslim women. Furthermore, we describe the corpus of narratives in order to
characterize the subgenre of best-selling autobiographies of Muslim women, especially with
regard to the dichotomies freedom/oppression, subversion/submission. In the second chapter,
we analyse the importance of the autobiographical genre and the concepts of truth and
authenticity to the rise of these books, as well as the relations of co-authorship present in such
narratives. Then, in the third chapter, the focus is on making visible the editorial voices and
their contributions to the spectacularization of the topos of the Muslim woman as a victim to
be rescued from her society. To do so, the discourses of the peritext (cover, back cover and
tabs) of these autobiographies will be examined. Therefore, we seek to question the limits and
possibilities of self-representation of the subaltern subject in contexts marked by inequality of
forces and intermediations of the speech.
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MARRA, L. As estratégias dos best-sellers e os processos de produção de autobiografias de mulheres muçulmanas. 2015. 131 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras e Linguística) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2015.