A trilogia morrisoniana: metaficção historiográfica e realismo fantástico à luz de uma perspectiva feminina
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2017-03-22
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The purpose of this research is to present a critical reading of the novels Beloved, Jazz and Paradise, by the North-American author Toni Morrison, to show the form through which, in this trilogy, the representation of the sufferings of the Afro-American people and the history of their endurance move between Historiographical Metafiction and the Fantastic Realism.
In these novels, the female voice focuses attention on the experience of women who lived (and under a certain point of view still live) in the shadow of past slavery. Between racism and sexism, the protagonists of the novels are, to use an expression from Morrison’s last novel of the trilogy, “Black Eves”, in an unusual but paradoxically mundane context. The period covered by the stories in these books is that of the Post-Emancipation of the slaves in the 1870s, and the social movements for black people’s civil rights, in the 1920s and in the 1970s, respectively, when the United States of America lived the Reconstruction Era, the great migrations of former slaves from the South to the North, the conquest of the Civil Rights, and the second wave of feminism. In all these periods, although free, the African-American people continued living under big and real social, economic and civil rights inequalities.
The theoretical assumptions, which are the framework of this study, are the theory on the post-modern novel by Linda Hutcheon; the notion of truth as a linguistic construct, by Hayden White; the fantastic realism, by Tzvetan Todorov, Irène Bessière, David Roas and Pampa Arán; the theory of irony, according to Linda Hutcheon; and, on what concerns feminism, we refer to the studies of bell hooks (2015) and Deborah Gray White (1999).
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MUNHOZ, Liliane de Paula. A Trilogia Morrisoniana: metaficção historiográfica e realismo fantástico à luz de uma perspectiva feminina. 2017. 221 f. Tese (Doutorado em Letras e Linguística) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2017.