Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-05-03Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:21:19Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 lopes_tma_dr_arafcl.pdf: 976896 bytes, checksum: 282dcda3c22061cec439592b7e2fd70e (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O presente estudo tem como objetivo principal apresentar os desdobramentos do realismo mágico numa análise de A jangada de pedra (SARAMAGO, 2006) e em leituras de As intermitências da morte (SARAMAGO, 2005) e Ensaio sobre a cegueira (SARAMAGO, 2007), em que o procedimento literário em questão – tendo em conta a figura do narrador – adquire uma função dialógica, que se dá por meio de referências intertextuais com mitos, lendas e outras formas de narrativa da tradição literária ocidental. A análise literária baseia-se nas concepções de Gerárd Genette e outros autores sobre o narrador; para a concepção de realismo mágico, utilizamos essencialmente as reflexões de Irlemar Chiampi e Willian Spindler; no que diz respeito aos diálogos promovidos pela intertextualidade, recorremos aos conceitos propostos por Mikhail Bakhtin, Lauren Jenny e Lucien Dällembach. De posse destes e de outros estudos da teoria da narrativa, analisamos os textos literários, com a preocupação de identificar elementos que inserem os romances mencionados na perspectiva do realismo mágico, procedendo também à reflexão sobre o diálogo que o autor português realiza com a literatura hispano-americana por meio desse procedimento, procurando compreender o processo de construção dos romances pelo viés da narrativa mágica e suas contribuições para a literatura contemporânea / This study aims to present the features of magical realism in an analysis of A jangada de pedra (SARAMAGO, 2006) and in readings of As intermitências da morte (SARAMAGO, 2005) and Ensaio sobre a cegueira (SARAMAGO, 2007), in which that narrative procedure – taking into account the narrator – acquires a dialogical function, that comes to the fore through intertextual references about myths, legends and other forms of the Western literary tradition. The literary analysis is based on the ideas of Gerárd Genette and other authors about the narrator; for the concept of magical realism, we use essentially the reflexions of Irlemar Chiampi and William Spindler; as for the dialogues induced by the intertextuality, we make reference to the concepts proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin, Lauren Jenny and Lucien Dällembach. Using those and other studies of narrative theory, we analyze Saramago‟s texts, bearing ever in mind the need to identify elements that insert those novels in the perspective of magical realism, proceeding also to reflect about the dialogue the Portuguese author creates with the Spanish-American literature through this procedure, aiming to understand the process of novel building through the lens of magical narrative and its contributions to contemporaneous literature

abstract: Although opera is the last musical genre one typically associates with Latin America, Mexican composer Daniel Catán (1949-2011) found surprising success across the United States and overseas with his opera Florencia en el Amazonas (1996). Catán blends colorful music with literary elements to create a representation of Latin American culture through language, drama, scenery, and music. Among these elements is realism mágico (magical realism), a significant characteristic of Latin American literature. Indeed, the plot of the opera is influenced by Gabriel García Márquez's novel, El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985), as well as the poem "Mariposa de obsidiana" (Obsidian Butterfly, 1951) and the short story "La hija de Rappaccini" (Rappaccini's Daughter, 1953), both by Octavio Paz. To create his protagonist in the opera, Florencia Grimaldi, Catán combines the dramatic qualities of several European soprano heroines. This figure's character development is conveyed largely through her Act I, Scene 2, aria, "Florencia Grimaldi," and her Act II, Scene 17, aria, "Escúchame." An overview of the opera places these two arias into context, and their musical content and text-setting are closely examined in relation to the character of Florencia. Finally, how Daniel Catán creates a soprano heroine from the Latin American perspective is discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / D.M.A. Music 2013

The diploma thesis tries to define the problematic of the fantastic and magic in Central European literature. It captures a selection of works published between the second half of the 20th century until today in which unrealistic elements are markedly presented (such as imaginary space, function of dreams, blending of natural and unnatural as well as myths) and time has a specific function. The main focus is on authors such as Daniela Hodrová, Daniel Kehlmann, Saša Stanišić, Olga Tokarczuk and Jáchym Topol. The aim of this work is to find out whether it is possible to understand Central European literature in categories such as magical realism or the fantastic, or whether Central Europe is so saturated with Western rationalism that all attempts to find magic fail.

This essay by Andrew Allen-Olivar uses the film script form to present scenes that follow a fictional town where each scene follows different inhabitants – from the new kid, to the tree, to the fish, to the undead locals that inhabit the town. The work is inspired by magical realist writers, poets and philosophers such as Jorge Louis Borges, Alejandro Zambra, Anne Carson and Franz Kafka. Through these scenes, the author's intentions are to convey a place that shifts – between time and place; between memory and exaggerations; between narrative and documentation.

The stories in this collection represent an increasingly transcultural world by exploring the intersection of cultures and identities in border spaces, particularly the Mexican-American border. Characters, regardless of ethnicity, experience the effects of migration and deportation in schools, hometowns, relationships, and elsewhere. The collection as a whole focuses on the issues and themes found in Mexican-American literature, such as loss, separation, and the search for identity.

This collection of short stories spans subjects and characters from all around this world and the next. From Himalayan moth girls to swamp princesses and alligator wrestlers, The Ballad of Sparrowfoot offers a unique glimpse inside real and imagined communities and the people who live there. Search for pirate treasure on a magical island, join the cast of fairy tale princesses being raised in a convent, and experience the tribulations of the a bird-footed girl in Louisiana as she searches for her genealogical roots.

Various contemporary female authors deploy supernatural motifs portrayed through or alongside diverse forms of intermediality in texts which thematise the patriarchal oppression of women. In order to throw light on this phenomenon, this thesis investigates the intermedial relations and supernatural motifs of Carmen Maria Machado’s novella “Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order: SVU”, and their relation to the political themes of the text. The analysis is based on the method of intermediality, primarily on Lars Elleström’s and Irina O. Rajewsky’s categorisations of intermedial relations. The supernatural motifs are situated within the hybrid context of the gothic and magical realism, and understood as an expression of strangeness. The analysis of this thesis finds that media transformation in combination with supernatural motifs serve to visualise oppressive and violent structures that are typically obscured. What is more, the similarities and tensions between intermediality and supernatural strangeness emphasise the dread and confusion produced in the encounter with uncanny or eerie societal forces. Finally, the tension and the resistance that arise where supernatural strangeness and intermediality meet illustrate a fundamental dilemma of communication: that it is always mediated, and thus, always incomplete.

The dissertation component of this Master’s degree explores the animist ethic in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness; more specifically it will examine how an animist cosmology underlies many of the ethical values in the text in particular those that guide an alternative to the globalising forces of capitalism through a co-operative, eco-friendly solution. By paying attention to the features in the text that could be called animist, in other words the interaction with non-human persons including plants, animals, geological features and ancestral spirits, this dissertation argues that these features are central to the transformation of the protagonist. Camagu’s journey involves a search for belonging that leads him into a network of relationships in Qolorha-By-Sea, which he can only navigate once he enters into his role as a mediator and becomes an exponent of certain ancestral beliefs. I shall argue that this role necessitates an openness and an acceptance of the ambiguity and uncertainty of certain human and non-human relationships. This ambiguity necessarily produces an attitude of openness and awareness in the novel’s central characters that informs the novel’s ecological ethic and expands our notions of inequality to include the more-than-human. Primarily, this dissertation argues that Mda imagines a way of bringing a cultural, animist, world view into the present as a conception of inequality that extends beyond the human. In accompaniment to this dissertation is my own Speculative Fiction novel, Why The River Runs, which is also concerned with what accepting an animist worldview means for my protagonists. The novel explores the mental health struggles of the main protagonist and relates them to the alienating and harmful experience of living under capitalism while also following the second protagonist’s journey through an ancestral calling to become a traditional healer, and follows both protagonists as they navigate a post-apocalyptic scenario. My novel shares several features with Mda’s including ecological issues such as connection with the land and relationships with non-human subjects. Just as Mda does, my novel weaves together this ecological ethic with traditional belief systems and discrepant attitudes towards them. Through the protagonists’ journeys they learn the importance of engaging meaningfully with others as a way of emerging from crippling isolation and inwardness while recognising identity as a process with no certain resolution. / Dissertation (MA (Creative Writing))--University of Pretoria, 2021. / Unit for Creative Writing / MA (Creative Writing) / Unrestricted

Primrose and Other Stories is a short story collection that explores themes of family, loss, and legacy.

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