“A casa tornou-se minha mente": a representação da realidade em The House of Hunger, de Dambudzo Marechera
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2016-09-29
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The aim of this research and of the dissertation resulting from it is the analysis of the
construction of the representation of reality in the book The House of Hunger (1978), by
Dambudzo Marechera. Prominent writer from Zimbabwe, inscribed in the African
Literature in English, his works do not have yet translations into Portuguese. In his own
country, he has suffered several accusations for refusing to write according to the Preand
Post-Independence national call to the production of works under the 19th century
Realism and the 20th century Socialist Realism. His rejection of these “traditions” has
resulted in a critical fortune that sometimes vilifies his works for being antirealist and
anti-mimetic. This work focuses primarily on tracing how the concept of mimesis
already presented differences in Ancient Greece, through Plato’s and Aristotle’s ideas,
and how the contribution of the theorist Erich Auerbach (2013) collaborates for the
analysis and understanding of the construction of the representation of reality in the
works by Dambudzo Marechera, which re-evaluates the charges against the author afore
mentioned. For the development of this thesis, we decided to focus our attention on the
novel “The House of Hunger” and the short stories “Burning in the Rain” and “The
Transformation of Harry”, through the analysis of how the choice of the narrative point
of view used in the works and how their narratives are constructed help for the
construction of the representation of reality. In the Third Chapter, we made use of the
postcolonial theories by Homi Bhabha (1998) and Frantz Fanon (2005) to help us
analyze how mimesis is built in the short story “Black Skin What Mask”, through an
identity crisis suffered by the protagonist-character. The short-story, which has in its
title an obvious paraphrase of the title of Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks (2008), has
the construction of reality emerging through the tension between the fictional entity and
the environment, which is a configuration of what Erich Auerbach understands mimesis
is.
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ANDRADE, N. C. R. “A casa tornou-se minha mente": a representação da realidade em The House of Hunger, de Dambudzo Marechera. 2016. 117 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras e Linguística) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2016.