Critical studies and creative works in the Sesotho novel have made some of the important contributions in Sesotho literary history in particular, and African literary history in general. However, such contribution has been dictated by a particular history and an ideology. The world-view in literary practice that emerged from that history is the one that tends to divorce literature, literary study and language from society. Consequently, this study identifies this practice as a problem that needs to be addressed. This study argues from this perspective that literature, literary study and language should be re-established as integral parts in a manner that pedagogical practice would translate into positive social practices. To realise this ideal the study approaches the study of the Sesotho novel from the perspective of literary production. The theory of literary production insists that literature is a form of social production. This argument becomes even more pertinent to the study of the novel, which is viewed as having profound elements of realism that mirror society. A consideration of the Sesotho novel as a form of literary production that is linked to other forms of social production immediately leads to the question of the development of the Sesotho novel. The possibilities that are identified include external influence and internal evolution in the development of the Sesotho novel. These possibilities also have a bearing on the study of the Sesotho novel in particular and the study of the African novel in general. In order to pursue the argument to its logical conclusion, the development of the Sesotho novel is divided into three periods: 1900-1930; 1930-1960 and the 1960s- 1990s. Each of these periods demonstrates a particular ideological leaning that is akin to the material conditions of each period. Taking this trend as a pattern in the development of the Sesotho novel, this study advocates an approach that links literature and literary studies to society. / African Languages / D.Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

Orientador: Marcia Azevedo de Abreu / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T12:00:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_HebeCristinada_D.pdf: 7576093 bytes, checksum: 961472d63190c257c3f2fbf6b3de8933 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta parte do processo de formação do romance brasileiro a partir da análise da trajetória e da produção de Antônio Gonçalves Teixeira e Sousa, autor considerado, por alguns especialistas, o primeiro romancista nacional. Na historiografia literária publicada no século XX, esse escritor é comumente referido como um prosador secundário que publicou narrativas carentes de qualidades estéticas. Entretanto, o número de edições e os comentários críticos eminentemente elogiosos que suas obras em prosa obtiveram ao longo do século XIX indicam que, apesar de seus problemas formais, os romances do autor foram bem recebidos por seus contemporâneos. A análise desses textos permite verificar que, neles, o escritor deu ênfase ao trabalho com os elementos mais valorizados pela crítica de romances da época e pelos primeiros prosadores nacionais: a moralidade e a cor local. O estudo da produção ficcional de Teixeira e Sousa permite conhecer parte das questões que estiveram em voga nos anos em que se deu a formação do romance brasileiro, bem como observar as dificuldades enfrentadas e as soluções encontradas pelos escritores brasileiros responsáveis pela produção das primeiras narrativas nacionais / Abstract: This thesis discusses part of the formation of Brazilian novel from the study of the works and trajectory of Antonio Gonçalves Teixeira e Sousa, considered, by many specialists, the first Brazilian novelist. In the twentieth-century literary historiography, this writer is usually referred as a secondary author whose published stories were lacking in aesthetic qualities. However, the number of editions and auspicious critics that his work obtained during the nineteenth century indicates that, despite the formal problems, Teixeira e Sousa's novels had a good reception by his contemporaries. The study of his texts helps us to verify that the author put the emphasis on the aspects greatly appreciated by the novel criticism of that period and by the first Brazilian writers: morality and local color. The analysis of Teixeira e Sousa's narratives allow us to know part of the issues in vogue during the period of the formation of Brazilian novel, as well as observe the difficulties faced by and the solutions found by the first Brazilian fiction writers in the first national narratives / Doutorado / Historia e Historiografia Literaria / Doutor em Teoria e História Literária

Orientador: Adelia Toledo Bezerra de Meneses / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T09:03:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Veratti_NelsonSamuelPorto_M.pdf: 1167836 bytes, checksum: 0c69a907ec6083e5ebe70538b1937d34 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Este trabalho busca a revitalização da obra Admirável Mundo Novo, de Aldous Huxley, por meio de uma leitura que não apenas reconhece o seu mérito literário como também resgata o seu teor crítico, cujo valor vem sendo desconsiderado por aqueles que recusam alguns de seus aspectos. Procuramos examinar e reconsiderar os prováveis motivos que levam a obra à margem da crítica literária para, em seguida, apontar a importância desse romance que permite reflexões relevantes sobre o mundo contemporâneo / Abstract: This thesis argues for a renewed reading of Aldous Huxley's ¿Brave New World¿. The interpretation carried out therein not only aknowledges the novel's literary merit, but also recuperates its critical tenor, whose import has been ignored by those who refuse to accept some of its most relevant aspects. The thesis examines and reconsiders the most probable motives which led to this marginal position in critical discourse; following this, it highlights the importance of the novel, which allows one to develop revelant reflections on the contemporary world / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

Orientador: Marcia Azevedo de Abreu / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T00:44:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Souza_SimoneCristinaMendoncade_D.pdf: 2577333 bytes, checksum: 84cdd54149962b9fbaa79d609e29fe79 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Dentre os muitos títulos publicados entre 1808 e 1822 na Impressão Régia do Rio de Janeiro, este trabalho se concentra nos romances. Os títulos dos documentos e das obras diversas publicados nesse período foram catalogados ainda no século XIX. Entretanto, boa parte dos exemplares já havia desaparecido, fazendo com que o método utilizado para identificação dos títulos incluísse os anúncios de jornais. Como também eram anunciadas publicações feitas em Lisboa, havia a dúvida quanto à delimitação das que efetivamente foram editadas na Impressão Régia do Rio de Janeiro. A confusão de locais de impressão levantava a hipótese de uma relação editorial entre a Impressão Régia estabelecida na colônia e sua congênere lisboeta. Tal hipótese foi refutada após investigarmos a casa impressora portuguesa e os títulos de romances nela editados. Concluímos que somente seria possível definir quais foram os romances feitos pela primeira casa impressora oficialmente instalada no Brasil com a localização dos exemplares e a confirmação, pelos dados das folhas de rosto, de que foram impressos no Rio de Janeiro. Por meio de buscas, localizamos quase todos os romances catalogados e delimitamos os que saíram dos prelos da Impressão Régia do Rio de Janeiro. No processo, traçamos a história editorial de cada um deles, verificamos de que maneira eram anunciados pelos livreiros nos jornais e analisamos esses livros do ponto de vista material e textual. Raros e de localização trabalhosa, esses romances são atualmente pouco lembrados ou totalmente desconhecidos. No entanto, têm sua importância nos estudos sobre a circulação de livros no período colonial e em anos posteriores e, certamente, fizeram parte da formação do gosto do público por livros do gênero / Abstract: Among many titles published between 1808 and 1822 by Impressão Régia (Royal Printing) from Rio de Janeiro, this thesis concentrates on the novels. In the 19th century the organization of documents and different works published in such period began. However, a significant part of the copies had already disappeared at that time. So, the method used for identifying the titles included newspaper announcements. As publications made in Lisbon were also announced, there was a doubt regarding the delimitation of the ones which had been effectively published by the Impressão Régia from Rio de Janeiro. The confusion about printing places supported the hypothesis about an editorial relation between the Impressão Régia established in the colony and its congener in Lisbon. Such hypothesis was refuted by us after investigating the Portuguese printing house and the titles of novels published by it. We concluded that it would only be possible to define which novels were published by the first printing house officially established in Brazil by means of the localization of the copies and the confirmation, through the data printed on the title page, that they were printed in Rio de Janeiro. We localized almost every novel which were catalogued and delimited those which originated from the press of Impressão Régia from Rio de Janeiro. During the process, we framed the editorial history of each one of them, verify the way they were announced by the booksellers in the newspapers and analyzed these books from the material and textual points view. Being rare and hard to be located, nowadays, these novels are seldom remembered or totally unknown. Nevertheless, they are important for studies about the circulation of books during the colonial period and the subsequent years, and they definitely played an important part in forming the audience's taste for novel reading / Doutorado / Historia e Historiografia Literaria / Doutor em Teoria e História Literária

Orientador: Francisco Foot Hardman / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T18:32:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_FernandoSimpliciodos_D.pdf: 3482638 bytes, checksum: ddee43e4a6460bec65d9f060ea775d3b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a maneira pela qual é desenvolvida a relação entre história, política e alegoria na tetralogia romanesca composta por O louco do Cati (1942), Desolação (1944), Passos perdidos (1946) e Nuanças (1981) e, principalmente, na trilogia constituída por Deuses econômicos (1966), Sol subterrâneo (1981) e Prodígios (1980), de Dyonelio Machado (1895-1985). Para a consecução de nossas hipóteses, por meio de uma apreciação que igualmente se vale da alegoria como método analítico, em primeiro lugar, o propósito é avaliar como os romances O louco do Cati, Desolação, Passos perdidos e Nuanças representam uma crítica sutil ou implícita, especialmente, contra a Era Vargas e contra o sistema econômico capitalista; e como essa característica tende a se tornar paulatinamente mais explícita, sobretudo na última narrativa. Em segundo lugar, nossa apreciação está dirigida ao estudo de Deuses econômicos, Sol subterrâneo e Prodígios, a fim de verificar de que modo esses romances ampliam e reforçam o questionamento à violência tirânica e ditatorial, acentuando as origens de suas mais remotas contradições sociais, políticas, econômicas e religiosas. Nesse sentido, num primeiro nível de interpretação dessa trilogia, constatamos uma indagação direta ao despotismo do imperador Nero; e, a partir de outro patamar significativo, averiguamos, em profundidade, que existe ao mesmo tempo um tácito julgamento que não está somente direcionado à Era Vargas, mas também endereçado à ditadura militar e ao imperialismo moderno. Além dessas questões, sublinhamos uma crítica (sempre subjacente aos romances) a respeito de certas questões político-religiosas que vigoravam no Rio Grande do Sul da época em que essas três composições foram publicadas, em especial ressignificando impasses, atinentes aos membros do Integralismo e representantes da Aliança Nacional Libertadora (ANL), bem como entre comunistas e capitalistas, em meio a outras especificidades. Nessas três obras, a alegoria interligada à metodologia apreciativa permite identificar a presença de um texto e de subtextos, à medida que detectamos um diálogo de cunho intertextual. Portanto, trata-se de reconhecer a existência, nas narrativas do autor, de uma passagem entre duas formas distintas de crítica. A primeira poderia ser considerada como "menos complexo"; e a segunda, como "muita mais expressiva". Sobretudo com o exame comparativo entre os romances O louco do Cati, Desolação, Passos perdidos e Nuanças e os livros Deuses econômicos, Sol subterrâneo e Prodígios, ainda procuramos sistematizar uma literatura dyoneliana, não apenas do cárcere, como também de suas "trágicas consequências". Assim, acreditamos que é possível assinalar como está organizada e rearticulada parte da poética de Dyonelio Machado através dos tempos, de modo que seja possível esquematizar, da mesma maneira, o percurso e as transformações pelas quais passaram certas fases de seu pensamento estético e artístico / Abstract: This work seeks to analyze the way the relation between history, politics and allegory is developed in the novel tetralogy made up of O louco do Cati [The Madman from Cati] (1942), Desolação [Desolation] (1944), Passos perdidos [The Lost Steps] (1946), and Nuanças [Nuances](1981); and mainly in the trilogy composed of Deuses econômicos [Economical Gods] (1966), Sol subterrâneo [Underground Sun] (1981) and Prodígios[Prodigies] (1980), by Dyonelio Machado (1895-1985). To test our hypotheses, we carried out an examination which also makes use of allegory as an analytical method. First, our purpose is to investigate how the novels O louco do Cati, Desolação, Passos perdidos and Nuanças represent a subtle or implicit criticism whose main targets are the Vargas Era and the capitalist economic system; and how such feature tends to gradually become more and more explicit, mainly in the last narrative. Second, our examination is focused on the study of Deuses econômicos, Sol subterrâneo and Prodígios, so as to check on how these novels expand and reinforce the questioning of dictatorial and tyrannical violence, and to point out its most remote social, political, economic and religious contradictions. In doing that, at the first level of interpretation of this trilogy, we see a direct inquiry into the despotism of Emperor Nero; and at another level, we notice a deeper lay of meaning, in which there is also a tacit judgment that is passed not only on the Vargas Era, but also on the military dictatorship and on modern imperialism. Besides those issues, we highlight a criticism - always underlying the novels - of some political-religious issues in Rio Grande do Sul which were current in that time when the three works were published. It especially imparts new meanings to stalemates between the members of the integralist movement and representatives of the National Liberation Alliance (ANL), as well as between communists and capitalists, among other things. In those three works, the allegory coupled with the appreciative inquiry method allows for identifying a text and subtexts, as we perceive a dialogue of intertextual nature. Therefore, studying the narratives of the author implies in recognizing the existence in them of a passage between two distinct forms of criticism. The first one may be considered as "less complex" while the second one can be seen as "much more expressive". We also seek to systematize the literature by Dyonelio Machado, not only the prison literature but also the literature on its "tragic consequences". That is done mainly through the comparative study between the tetralogy made up of the novels O louco do Cati, Desolação, Passos perdidos and Nuanças and the trilogy composed of Deuses econômicos, Sol subterrâneo and Prodígios. Thus, we believe it is possible to trace how part of Dyonelio Machado's poetics is organized and rearticulated throughout time, in a way that makes it also possible to outline the path and changes through which some phases of his aesthetic and artistic thinking passed / Doutorado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Doutor em Teoria e História Literária

This thesis investigates the figure of the cyborg as conceptualised by Donna Haraway in The Cyborg Manifesto (1991). The figure of the cyborg, as a transgressive figure in the late twentieth century within socialist feminist discourse, is problematized with regard to its efficacy as a creature that challenges the constructed nature of gender and contests the boundary between human and machine through its ambiguous nature. Haraway’s notions of the cyborg, which she bases partly on cyborg characters from Science Fiction literature, deny the ocularcentric traditions that have structured gender and the body. Similarly, Haraway does not engage adequately with the figure of the cyborg with regard to situating it historically. This thesis unpacks both the visual and the historical aspects that have structured the cyborg body. By engaging with these concepts, the cyborg emerges as a figure that is identified through visual signifiers of female deviance and pathology. By reading female deviance and pathology on the body of the nineteenth-century hysteric, similarities can be drawn between the hysteric and the cyborg. Through a reading of Alien (1979); Blade Runner (1982); and Star Trek: First Contact (1996) key cyborg texts of the late twentieth century, the figure of the cyborg, and its relation to the deviant pathologised female can be understood when read against the body of the hysteric and how it was visually coded and communicated

This thesis locates Abraham H. de Vries's Nag van ale Clown witbin the self-conscious South African socio-literary climate of the eighties and analyses postmodernist narrative strategies in five stories. Surveying the debate on postmodernism, this study describes postmodernism as a nomadic, inherently contradictory and mutually informing palimpsest of texts and views the De Vries text as a problematized inscribing of subjectivity into history. / Hierdie proefskrif situeer Nag van die Clown (1989) van Abraham H. de Vries binne die selfbewuste sosioliterere klimaat van die Suid-Afrika van die dekade tagtig en ontleed postmodernistiese vertelstrategiee in vyf verhale uit die bundel. Die studie bied 'n oorsig oor die debat rondom die postmodernisme as nomadiese, weersprekende en wedersyds voedende palimpses tekste en beskou die De Vries-teks as 'n problematiserende inskryf van subjektiwiteit in die geskiedenis.

A social-constructionist ecofeminist perspective argues that patriarchal society separates the human (or culture) from nature, which causes a false assumption that humanity possesses the right, as a superior species, to dominate nature. This perspective integrates the domination of nature with social conflicts, including but not limited to racial discrimination, gender oppression, and class hierarchies. Understanding how these various forms of oppression interrelate forms the main goal of an ecofeminist perspective. Since the nature-culture, female-male, and whitenonwhite conflicts resonate and interlock throughout South Africa's history, socialconstructionist ecofeminism is an indispensable perspective for analysing South African literature. This thesis takes a social-constructionist ecofeminist approach and applies it to four women authors that write about South African society between the years 1860-1900. This thesis includes the following authors and their works: Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) and two of her novels, The Story of an African Farm (1883) and From Man to Man (published posthumously in 1927); Pauline Smith (1882-1959) and her novel The Beadle (1926); Dalene Matthee (1938- ) and three of her novels, Circles in a Forest (1984), Fiela's Child (1986), and The Mulberry Forest (1987); and Marguerite Poland (1950- ) and one of her novels, Shades (1993). This thesis investigates two women from the time period (Schreiner and Smith) and two women from a late twentieth century perspective (Matthee and Poland) and compares how they depict the natural environment, how they construct gender, and how they interpret class and race power struggles. This thesis concludes that the social-constructionist perspective offers unique insights into these four authors. Schreiner's novels reveal her concerns about gender and racial conflicts in South Africa and her understanding of the nature-culture dichotomy as sustained by Social Darwinism. Smith offers insights into the complex power structures in a rural Afrikaans society that keep women and nonwhite races silent. Matthee writes nature as an active participant in her novels; the social and ecological conflicts emphasise the transformation of the Knysna area. Poland explores the racial tensions, gender conflicts, and environmental concerns that preceded the South African War. Schreiner, Smith, Matthee, and Poland make up a small cross-section of South African literature, but they provide a basis for further discussing the ecofeminist perspective within a South African context. / KMBT_363 / Adobe Acrobat 9.54 Paper Capture Plug-in

Since 1979 feminist scholars have misread key images in Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own'. They delineated the extended essay as a groundbreaking feminist polemic that advocates abolishing the literary patriarchy, expressing distain for John Milton as chief offender. Through rhetorical analysis and close readings of passages, there seems advocacy for change in patriarchial education and for opening of the literary canon to women.

PhD (Xitsonga) / Ehansi ka Senthara ya MER Mathivha ya Tindzimi ta Afrika, Vutshila na Ndhavuko / See the attached abstract below