<p>The following chapters access kitchen narratives through the lens of the Bildungsroman to help bridge an important gap in the reception and criticism of the theme. In particular, I examine the trope of food and the kitchen space in texts that also deal with coming of age, and how the criticism surrounding these texts has helped or hindered critical understanding of female experiences.</p> <p>In my Introduction I conduct a survey of the way literary criticism has approached culinary texts and women’s writing about kitchen spaces. I propose that viewing kitchen narratives in Latina authors’ texts as a form of female Bildungsroman serves as a platform for women to communicate their own stories in a way that highlights their contribution to a literary genre through their own personal experiences. In parts 1 and 2 of Chapter 2 I investigate further into the history of culinary writing in Latin America as well as how the Bildungsroman and the kitchen intersect in women’s writing respectively. In Chapter 3 I conduct a critical analysis of one of the most widely studied culinary fictions, Laura Esquivel's <i>Como agua para chocolate</i> (1989), and examine how this text and its scholarship have set the stage for food narrative criticism for women across Latina texts. Chapter 4 focuses on kitchen narratives in texts and how they can be viewed through the lens of the Bildungsroman utilizing Judith Ortiz Cofer's <i>Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood </i>(1991)<i>.</i></p>

Orientador: Celso Kraemer. / Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação) - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Centro de Ciências da Educação, Universidade Regional de Blumenau, Blumenau.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-02-09T18:13:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIA DIVINA MOREIRA DOS SANTOS SILVA.pdf: 4511401 bytes, checksum: c5a9b6a7795450ff9ae48acbf10b8c05 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-09T18:13:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIA DIVINA MOREIRA DOS SANTOS SILVA.pdf: 4511401 bytes, checksum: c5a9b6a7795450ff9ae48acbf10b8c05 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-31 / This thesis is an exploratory study of the novel The Young Törless, as a Bildungsroman and as heterotopia. For this, it took into account the point view of Foucault's about modernity and heterotopias of crisis crossed by the literary language. In this sense we studied some of the works of this author, in addition, of course, other authors in order to maintain a dialogue about the subject. Between the work of Foucault, it should be noted: The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish: The birth of the Prison; The Order of Discourse, Microphysics of Power, Dits et Écrits 3, and Le Corps Utopique - Les Heterotopies. The object of this thesis is the Bildungsroman as an original heterotopic place. The child development grows at the confluence of the two heterotopies: boarding school and adolescence. In the novel, the construction of the subjectivity is given by the forms of discourse production, by the power of relationships and affection in interpersonal relationships networks that are woven and woven as the narrative progresses. According to the adopted perspective, we studied the philosophical influences present in the novel and tried to show that The Young Törless as a Bildungsroman and as heterotopia exposes the relationships that underlie Törless subjectivity construction while he attends the boarding school in the late nineteenth century to the twentieth century. / Esta tese trata-se de um estudo exploratório do romance O Jovem Törless, de Robert Musil, como romance de formação e como heterotopia. Para isso, levou-se em consideração o pensamento de Foucault para heterotopias atravessadas pela linguagem literária. Nesse sentido foram estudadas algumas das obras desse autor, além, evidentemente, das de outros autores como forma de manter um diálogo a respeito do tema. Da obra de Foucault, foram lidas As palavras e as coisas, A Ordem do Discurso, Microfísica do Poder, Ditos e Escritos III, Des Espaces Autres e Le Corps Utopique – Les Heterotopies. O objeto desta tese é o romance de formação como espaço heterotópico por excelência, espaço em que se dá a formação do indivíduo na confluência de duas heterotopia: o internato e a adolescência. No romance a construção da subjetividade se dá pelas formas de produção discursiva em disputa nesses espaços, pelas relações de poder que aí tem lugar, pelas redes de relações que são tecidas e entretecidas à medida que a narrativa avança. De acordo com a perspectiva adotada, estudaram-se as influências filosóficas presentes no romance e procurou-se demonstrar que O Jovem Törless como romance de formação e como heterotopia expõe as relações que subjazem à trajetória de formação de Törless como estudante de colégio interno, relações, essas, condizentes com a formação escolar na virada do século XIX para o século XX.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This study explores how selected West African war novels employ non-realist narrative modes to portray disruptions in the child’s development into adulthood. The novels considered are Chris Abani’s Song for Night (2007), Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah is Not Obliged (2006), Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation (2005) and Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen and Me (2005). These novels strain at the conventions of realism as a consequence of the attempt to represent the disruptions in child development as a result of the upheavals of war. A core proposition of the study is to present why the authors in question are obliged to employ non-realist modes in representing disrupted childhoods that reflect the social and cultural disorder attendant upon war. The dissertation also asks pertinent questions regarding the ideological effect of these narrative strategies and the effect of the particular stylistic idiosyncrasies of each of the authors in figuring childhood in postcolonial Africa. The novels in question employ surrealism, the absurd, the grotesque and magical realism, in presenting the first person narratives of children in war situations, or the reflections of adult narrators on children affected by war. This study further analyses the ways the aesthetic modes employed by these authors underscore, in particular, children’s experiences of war. Through strategic use of specific literary techniques, these authors highlight questions of vulnerability, powerlessness and violence on children, as a group that has been victimised and co-opted into violence. The study further considers how these narrative transformations in the representations of children in novels, capture transformations in ideas about childhood in postcolonial Africa.

Zugl.: Heidelberg, Univ., Diss., 2005

Zugl.: Bamberg, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2006/2007

Zugleich: Diss. Münster (Westfalen), 2007. / Register. Literaturverz.

The ‘Uncreated’ Voice of a Nation: James Joyce and the Twentieth Century Irish Bildungsroman places James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in conversation with numerous later twentieth century Bildungsromane to argue that texts by Edna O’Brien, John McGahern, Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe, Jamie O’Neill, Eimear McBride, Seamus Deane, and Bernard MacLaverty examine the tension between liberation and oppression, hope and despair, to explore the complexities of these tensions untapped by Joyce, paradoxically producing darker conclusions in the Free State/Republic than in the North. I suggest that the postcolonial Irish writer feels greater anxieties about allowing the form of the Bildungsroman any sense of resolution than his/her colonial, Northern Irish counterpart. If one views liberation from colonial rule as a future event, that future is “uncreated” in its brightly-colored potential. If one views liberation from colonial rule as a past event, the present is instead an examination of the failures of revolution and the lingering ghosts of colonial rule that often appear in the guise of these very revolutionary failures.

This thesis examines female gender nonconformity as a behaviour in response to Victorian patriarchal oppression in the female protagonist of Charlotte Brönte's bildungsroman Jane Eyre. Gender nonconforming behaviour is depicted as behaviour that does not obey gender roles or expectations, linking the responsive quality of such behaviours to the traits of hegemonic masculinity exerted by the male characters who represent and perpetuate a patriarchal system: St John Rivers and Edward Rochester. The investigation concludes that not only Jane but also Bertha endure and suffer the oppression that triggers their gender nonconforming behaviours. This thesis has not examined Bertha as an antagonistic version of Jane, nor as the monster in the angel and monster dichotomy which Gilbert and Gubar have pointed out, but as a future version of her. It is concluded as well that Jane is spared of Bertha's destiny because of Rochester's degraded physical condition which does not allow him to assert his dominance over Jane as he did over Bertha. Jane perpetuates the dehumanisation of Bertha to an extent given Bertha's creole ethnicity and dark traits, which Jane uses to demonize Bertha by characterizing her as a wild creature.

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar a construção das personagens femininas na tetralogia napolitana Lamica geniale, de Elena Ferrante. Para tanto, situamos a obra dentro da tradição do Bildungsroman e da tradição realista, para que seja possível compreender a herança de Ferrante e seus modelos de criação. Utilizamos, principalmente, os estudos de Franco Moretti, que percorrem as origens e as contradições deste subgênero romanesco, e como a voz feminina da heroína de Ferrante está ligada à tradição, ao mesmo tempo em que demonstra as dificuldades da peregrinação e do destino femininos dentro do contexto italiano. A construção feminina se concentra principalmente na protagonista e narradora da obra, Elena Greco, e particularidades de seu ethos e narrativa, tanto no plano da expressão quanto no plano do conteúdo. Para compreender a construção de Lenù, utilizamos a noção de sujeito reflexivo e suas relações com outros sujeitos. Ainda, levamos em consideração a relação com a maternidade como ponto incômodo na obra, bem como a dificuldade das relações femininas construídas na tetralogia. / This work aims to analyze the female characters construction in the Neapolitan Novels Lamica genial, by Elena Ferrante. For that purpose, we locate the books inside the Bildungsromans tradition and the realist tradition to enable the understanding of Ferrantes heritage and creative models. We use, mainly, the studies of Franco Moretti, which describes the origins and the contradictions of this novels subgenre; how the female voice of Ferrantes heroine is connected to the tradition; and, simultaneously, by what means it demonstrates the difficulties of the female peregrination and destiny inside the Italian context. The female construction is essentially concentrated in the protagonist and narrator Elena Greco, the particularities of her ethos and narrative, either in the expression or in the content narrative level. To understand Lenùs construction, we use the notion of reflexive subject and their relations with other subjects. Furthermore, we take into account the relation established with maternity as a troubling point in the books, as well as the difficulties between female relationships that are constructed in the novels.