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Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-08-18T14:20:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Aparecida Araujo dos Santos.pdf: 1801299 bytes, checksum: 9590f5d787eb2285aa33ed2267c90e42 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-18T14:20:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aparecida Araujo dos Santos.pdf: 1801299 bytes, checksum: 9590f5d787eb2285aa33ed2267c90e42 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Appraisal is a system to map the resources used to evaluate the social experience, carried out through several lexical-grammatical structures. The aim of this master thesis is to investigate the role of Appraisal on the narrative of suffering of a black Korean War veteran in two chapters of Home by Toni Morrison (2012), a Nobel Prize Laureate in 1993. If peace means the absence of war, this is a state the protagonist of Home - Frank - is unable to experience because he is followed by post-traumatic stress disorder, caused by the war and racial conflicts memories from childhood, during the 1950s segregation, caused by Jim Crow laws and McCarthyism. The narrative discourse analysis from the viewpoint of writer/reader relations reveals some mechanisms by which the narrative "works" on readers, enabling them to "feel with" a certain character and ethically judge his behavior. The survey runs through this literary universe in the light of discourse analysis, which, being trodden by scholars and researchers from socioideological and historical issues, was generally done obscurely, without the understanding support of their linguistic materiality. This study is based on the theoretical and methodological model of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), focusing on the Appraisal, an extension of Interpersonal metafunction of this theory. By the process of metarelation, redundant qualifiers and amplifiers or restrictive components, that is functionally a single assessment, are spread through the sentence or even long parts of a text. The research should answer the following questions: (a) What role does the Appraisal play in Frank‟s character composition? (b) What is the function of metarelation in this process? The novel analysis shows that the resources of Appraisal, running through the text by the metarelation process, contributes to the axiological creation of narration. The research shows some implications for the analysis of the evaluation in the text considering the contextual constraints to the development of relations between writer and reader / A Avaliatividade (Appraisal) é um sistema que mapeia os recursos usados para avaliar a experiência social, realizados por meio de várias estruturas léxico-gramaticais. O objetivo desta dissertação de mestrado é o exame do papel da Avaliatividade no relato do sofrimento de um rapaz afro-americano e ex-combatente de guerra da Coreia, em dois capítulos do romance Home, de Toni Morrison (2012), ganhadora do prêmio Nobel em 1993. Se a paz significa ausência de guerra, esse é um estado que o protagonista de Home – Frank – é incapaz de experienciar, já que sofre de transtorno de estresse pós-traumático causado pela guerra. Além disso, sofre com as recordações dos conflitos raciais sofridos na infância, no cenário de segregação dos anos 1950, causados pela lei Jim Crow e perseguições anticomunistas: o macartismo. A análise do discurso narrativo, do ponto de vista da relação escritor/leitor, revela alguns mecanismos pelos quais a narrativa “trabalha” sobre os leitores – capacitando-os a “sentir com” um determinado personagem e a julgar eticamente seu comportamento. A pesquisa percorre esse universo literário à luz da análise do discurso crítica, que – embora já tenha sido trilhado por estudiosos e pesquisadores para discutir questões sócioideológicas e históricas – tem sido realizada, muitas vezes, de forma obscura, sem o apoio da compreensão da sua materialidade linguística. O presente estudo tem o apoio teórico-metodológico da Linguística sistêmico-funcional (LSF), com enfoque no sistema da Avaliatividade (Appraisal), uma ampliação da metafunção Interpessoal dessa teoria. Pelo processo da metarrelação, os componentes redundantes, qualificadores e amplificadores ou restritivos, daquilo que é funcionalmente uma única avaliação, espalham-se através da oração ou, mesmo, de longos trechos de um texto. A pesquisa deve responder às seguintes perguntas: (a) Que papel exerce a Avaliatividade na composição do personagem Frank? (b) Qual é a função da metarrelação nesse processo? A análise do romance mostra que os recursos da Avaliatividade, que percorrem o texto pelo processo da metarrelação, contribuem para a criação axiológica da narração. A pesquisa mostra algumas implicações para a análise da avaliação no texto, se considerarmos os condicionamentos contextuais para o desenvolvimento das relações entre escritor e leitor

The protagonists in the fiction of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison illuminate American cultural perceptions of black women and illustrate how the creators of these characters hope to change those perceptions. I studied Paule Marshall's Daughters, Alice Walker's Meridian and The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye to learn what the writers of these novels have to say about the women they hope black girls can grow up to be and to learn what potential for self-development they see for black women. For example, in order to become whole people, what do black girls and black women need from their parents and their community? What do black women need from their intimate relationships? "Part One: Political, Historical and Religious Identity " surveys politics, religion and history for views of black women. Politically, they appear disenfranchised; historically they were property. In reference to religion, I found that a white male religion does not serve black women well. Walker sees god within her female protagonist Celie, and Marshall has a belief in a Caribbean/African diaspora that provides a sense of spiritual and cultural continuity. "Part Two: Childhood Identity" explores childhood and the community's role. Childhood appears as a critical time for self-development. The adults in the community contribute to the child's self-awareness. Mistreatment of girls causes them harm throughout their lives. How well the community safeguards its children is a measure of how highly these children are valued. These authors want to see girls more highly regarded. Toward this end, they expose the abuse that takes place in the community. Morrison shows not only the abuse, but also the love. By showing concerned parents as well as neglectful ones, Morrison offers a fuller portrait of the community she knows. The Color Purple also tells a story of sexual abuse of a girl, but this abuse is overcome by the inner strength of the victim combined with the loving support of Shug Avery and the supportive community context of the juke where Celie is accepted. The portrayal of childhood in Daughters involves a Caribbean island culture where the roles of the women that the child Ursa observes offer few role models. "Part Three: Adult Relational Identity" looks at the dilemma in communication between the sexes and across the generations from mother to daughter. Step-fathers and husbands are abusive characters in Walker's writing, while Morrison shows a loving father and an incestuous father in The Bluest Eye. "Part Four: Language Identity" discusses Black English, orality and dialect, looking at the role of language as an aspect of self-definition. James Baldwin's view of language is presented: rejecting a child's language is rejecting the child himself. Baldwin's view supports the attitude toward language as self-defining that appears in the writing of Marshall, Morrison, and Walker. These authors show pride in Black English, and they demonstrate their ability with edited English through their own writing. / Graduation date: 1994

Thesis (Ph.D. (English)) - Rhodes University, 2008.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 359-369).

Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1999. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2836. Typescript. Abstract appears on leaf [ii]. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-67).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 1987. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 284-292).

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Darryl Dickson-Carr, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 26, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 103 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Spanish and Portuguese)--Vanderbilt University, May 2007. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

ix, 226 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / This dissertation argues that American women writers have revised sacred texts to challenge patriarchy, racism, and colonialism and rewritten American history to reveal how biblical scripture has been implicated in these processes. I focus on the literary strategies of Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Lucille Clifton to rewrite sacred texts and create myths for a new society. In different ways, these writers redefine Christianity, often by countering the erasures of women in biblical scripture, recovering suppressed texts such as those from the gnostic tradition, and creating new sacred texts. Chapter I traces the history of feminist scriptural revision from the early feminist movement to its resurgence in the late-twentieth century. In this period, a number of authors rewrote religious scripture from a pre-Christian tradition; Elaine Pagels' The Gnostic Gospels played a critical role in the attention given to scripture suppressed by Christianity and the potential it holds for writers interested in recovering alternative epistemologies. Chapter II focuses on Morrison's Beloved and Jazz , which are concerned with the way biblical theology is proliferated through apocalyptic narrative strategies and omniscient narration. This chapter investigates the shift Morrison makes between biblical and gnostic concerns in the first two books of her trilogy. Chapter III analyzes the final book in Morrison's trilogy, Paradise , and compares it to Silko's Gardens in the Dunes . Here, Morrison relies on gnostic sources to scrutinize the effects of biblical notions of utopia on literature and its implications for social relations. Gardens uses the same sources but puts them to different uses, subverting their authority in a rewriting that supports Native survival through a program of cultural syncretism. Chapter IV examines the poetry of Lucille Clifton, who, although initially revising Christianity through her refiguring of the Lucifer character, rejects that tradition following the events of 9/11. Clifton's work in Mercy marks a juncture in women's revisions of sacred texts in its departure from Christianity and its introduction of a new sacred text and moral code not predicated upon hierarchy. In conclusion, I consider how these writers extend feminist and anti-racist traditions of scriptural revision explored in the introduction. / Adviser: Shari Huhndorf