Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Hispánica mención Literatura / En este trabajo analizo dos novelas de la escritora haitiana Edwidge Danticat, Palabra, Ojos, Memoria y Cosecha de Huesos, en torno a los conflictos que se generan en la construcción identitaria en los sujetos migrantes presentes en ellas. La investigación gira en torno a tres conceptos fundamentales: identidad y migración, por un lado, para abordar el conflicto principal que, como se dijo anteriormente, tiene que ver con las problemáticas que surgen en la identidad de aquellos sujetos que han tenido la experiencia de la migración. Mientras que por otro lado, se encuentra el concepto de memoria, que propongo como un factor que sustenta en estos individuos la posibilidad de su reconfiguración identitaria. A partir de estas nociones se desarrolla el análisis de estas novelas, el que se complementa con una reflexión comparativa respecto de ambos textos, que pone especial énfasis sobre los modos en que el desplazamiento físico, que supone la migración a otro país, es acompañado por un desplazamiento en la propia concepción de ser de los sujetos implicados en este tipo de proceso.

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Submitted by Fernanda Percia França (fernandafranca@bce.unb.br) on 2016-01-21T16:51:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_LorenaSalesdosSantos.pdf: 1352571 bytes, checksum: 2801e8a31e96ffa7a23f46b603ca691f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2016-03-14T23:04:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_LorenaSalesdosSantos.pdf: 1352571 bytes, checksum: 2801e8a31e96ffa7a23f46b603ca691f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-14T23:04:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_LorenaSalesdosSantos.pdf: 1352571 bytes, checksum: 2801e8a31e96ffa7a23f46b603ca691f (MD5) / A presente tese analisa as aproximações e distanciamentos no processo de formação das protagonistas dos romances Ponciá Vicêncio, de Conceição Evaristo, Breath, Eyes Memory, de Edwidge Danticat, Lucy e The Autobiography of my Mother, de Jamaica Kincaid. Meninas negras , que sofrendo de um sentimento de não pertencer, realizam movimentos diversos impulsionados por esse sentimento. Esse movimento constante foi o que convencionei chamar de “movimento do não pertencimento” e é um dos mais importantes elos entre as narrativas. As protagonistas realizam suas movimentações de modos diversos, em seu crescer: em migrações transnacionais, dentro de seus próprios países ou mesmo em jornadas in situ. Para entender esse movimento constante e o processo dessas meninas em tornarem-se mulheres precisei utilizar um arcabouço teórico complexo que engloba questões relativas aos Estudos Pós-Coloniais, aos Estudos de Gênero, à Teoria Polissistêmica, aos Estudos das Questões Étnico-Raciais, além das questões referentes aos gêneros narrativos do Gótico e do Romance de Formação, no caso aqui estudado, em sua variação pós-colonial. Todas essas teorias receberam um tratamento crítico e uma abordagem que permitu seguir com elas apenas a “parte do caminho” que fizesse sentido para a compreensão da trajetória das protagonistas, propondo articulações e indagações que possibilitem entender as conexões de suas experiências como sujeitos diaspóricos e migrantes, mas também compreender suas especificidades. / This dissertation analyses the similarities and differences in the process of upbringing of the protagonists of the novels Ponciá Vicêncio, by Conceição Evaristo, Breath, Eyes Memory, by Edwidge Danticat, Lucy and The Autobiography of my Mother, by Jamaica Kincaid. Black girls, suffering from a feeling of not belonging, perform several movements which are propeled by this feeling. This constant movement is what I call “the nonbelonging movement” and is one of the most important links between the narratives. The protagonists perform their movements in many different ways during their growing up process: in transnational migrations, inside their own countries or even in journeys in situ. In order to understand this constant movement and the process this girls undergo to become women, I needed to use a large and complex scope of theories that include topics from Post Colonial Studies, Gender Studies, Polysystem Theory, Studies of Ethnical and Racial matters, as well as studies concerning narrative genres such as the Gothic and the Bildungsroman, here, specifically, in its postcolonial variation. All these theories received a critical treatment and the approach used allowed me to follow, with them, only a “piece of the way”, using only what made sense to the understanding of the protagonists’ trajectories, proposing articulations and questions that facilitated the comprehension of the connection between their experiences as diasporic and migrant subjects, but also of their specificities.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The fragmented bodies and lives of postcolonial Caribbean women examined in Caribbean literature beget struggle and psychological ruin. The characters portrayed in novels by postcolonial Caribbean writers Edwidge Danticat, Michelle Cliff, and Shani Mootoo are marginalized as “Other” by a Western patriarchal discourse that works to silence them because of their gender, color, class, and sexuality. Marginalization participates in the act of fragmentation of these characters because it challenges their sense of identity. Fragmentation means fractured; in terms of these fictive characters, fragmentation results from multiple traumas, each trauma causing another break in their wholeness. Postcolonial scholars have identified the causes and effects of fragmentation on the postcolonial subject, and they argue one’s need to heal because of it. Danticat, Cliff, and Mootoo prove that wholeness is not possible for the postcolonial Caribbean woman, so rather than ruminate on that truth, they examine the journey of the postcolonial Caribbean woman as a way of making meaning of the pieces of her life. This project contends that fragmentation – and the fracture it produces – does not bind these women to negative existences; in fact, the female subjects of Danticat, Cliff, and Mootoo locate power in their fragmentation. The texts studied include Danticat’s "Breath, Eyes, Memory" (1994) and "The Farming of Bones" (1999), Cliff’s "Abeng" (1984) and "No Telephone to Heaven" (1987), and Mootoo’s "Cereus Blooms at Night" (1996) and "He Drown She in the Sea" (2005).