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1	Resistência feminina e feminismo africano em Without a Name de Yvonne Vera Silva, Sheila Dias da 18 July 2014 (has links) Submitted by Valquíria Barbieri (kikibarbi@hotmail.com) on 2017-06-20T21:04:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Sheila Dias da Silva.pdf: 1035547 bytes, checksum: d53a682fe0c296fe17f6a18fc591c88a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2017-06-23T15:34:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Sheila Dias da Silva.pdf: 1035547 bytes, checksum: d53a682fe0c296fe17f6a18fc591c88a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-23T15:34:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Sheila Dias da Silva.pdf: 1035547 bytes, checksum: d53a682fe0c296fe17f6a18fc591c88a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-18 / Yvonne Vera é uma das romancistas africanas que mais se destacaram no cenário internacional da literatura de língua inglesa. A ficção é o veículo utilizado por ela para articular a experiência feminina reprimida e silenciada em seu país. Vera nos apresenta a sociedade zimbabuense, sob o olhar das mulheres, ou seja, é através de personagens femininas, acompanhadas por narradores provavelmente do mesmo sexo, que vivenciamos seus enredos e tramas. A escrita de Vera surge da necessidade de inverter as estruturas da opressão e dos estereótipos coloniais impostos às mulheres negras, o que reforça seu papel como uma escritora com ideais feministas. Em Without a name (1994), romance que analisamos nesta pesquisa, ela narra a trajetória de Mazvita, uma mulher que resiste a diversos tipos de violência, como, por exemplo, o estupro. Mazvita tenta superar o trauma e buscar um futuro melhor para si, mas é possível perceber a impossibilidade de esperança num cenário repleto de desolação causado pela guerra de libertação e pela opressão patriarcal africana. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a construção da resistência feminina nesse romance por meio da investigação da fragmentação corporal da personagem. Pretendemos estabelecer relações entre suas possibilidades de reação e agência e o estado alquebrado de seu corpo, ao mesmo tempo em que buscamos tecer considerações a respeito de suas conexões com o corpo social de sua coletividade. Também examinamos os modos como o feminismo africano é articulado nessa obra. Ao final de nossa análise, concluímos que, nesse romance, Vera elabora uma narrativa de aniquilação, retratando as tentativas de resistência e de superação da personagem como arruinadas em paralelismo com a debilitação de seu corpo e a desesperança do cenário em que está inserida. / Yvonne Vera is one of Africa’s most outstanding novelists in the international scene of the English language literature. Fiction is the vehicle used by her to articulate female experience repressed and silenced in her country. Vera portrays Zimbabwean society through women’s perspective, usually employing female narrators to tell her female characters’ stories. Vera’s writing arises from the need to reverse the structures of oppression and colonial stereotypes imposed on black women, reinforcing her role as a writer with feminist ideals. In Without a name (1994), the novel that is analyzed in this study, Vera brings the story of Mazvita, a woman who resists many types of violence, such as rape. Mazvita tries to overcome the trauma and seek a better future for her, but it is possible to realize the impossibility of hope in a world full of desolation caused by the war of liberation and African patriarchal oppression. The objective of this paper is to analyze the construction of female resistance in the novel through the investigation of the character’s body fragmentation. Some relationships between her possibilities of agency and reaction and the broken state of her body are also established in the current analysis. Similarly her connections with the social body of her community, as well as the ways in which African feminism is portrayed in this novel, also come under scrutiny. At the end of the analysis, it is possible to imply that Vera elaborates a narrative of annihilation in this novel, depicting the character’s attempts of resistance and overcoming as ruined in parallel with the weakening of her body and the hopelessness of her setting. CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES Resistência feminina Fragmentação corporal Feminismo africano Yvonne Vera Female resistance Body fragmentation African feminism Yvonne Vera
2	Poetic language and subalternity in Yvonne Vera's butterfly burning and the stone virgins. Kostelac, Sofia Lucy 28 February 2007 (has links) Student Number : 9803321X - MA Dissertation - School of Literature and Language Studies - Faculty of Humanities / The primary aim of this dissertation is to trace the ways in which Yvonne Vera’s final two novels, Butterfly Burning and The Stone Virgins, provide a discursive space for the enunciation of subaltern histories, which have been silenced in dominant socio-political discourse. I argue that it is through the deployment of ‘poetic language’ that Vera’s prose is able to negotiate the voicing of these suppressed narratives. In exploring these questions, I endeavour to locate Vera’s texts within the theoretical debates in postcolonial scholarship which question the ethical limitations of representing oppressed subjects in the Third World, as articulated by Gayatri Spivak, in particular. Following Spivak’s claim that subalternity is effaced in hegemonic discourse, I focus on the ways in which Vera’s inventive prose works to bring the figure of the subaltern back into signification. In order to elucidate how this dynamic operates in both novels, I employ Julia Kristeva’s psycholinguistic theory of ‘poetic language’. I argue that Kristeva’s understanding of literary practice as a transgressive modality, which is able to unsettle the silencing mechanisms of dominant monologic discourse, critically illuminates the subversive value of Vera’s fictional style for marginalised subaltern narratives. Zimbabwean literature Yvonne Vera Poetic Language subalternity Julia Kristeva Gayatri Spivak
3	Uma leitura da representação do feminino na ficção de Yvonne Vera / A reading of the female representation in the fiction of Yvonne Vera ARAÚJO, Cibele de Guadalupe Sousa 15 December 2010 (has links) Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:19:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cibele de Guadalupe Sousa.pdf: 1077694 bytes, checksum: 7fe393d9dabe3fdf71dd50e0dd5b4f0f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-15 / The aim of this research and of the dissertation from it is the analysis of the fictional work of Yvone Vera, a prominent writer from Zimbabwe. Incribed in the African literature written in English, her works are well known and studied internationally, and they have been translated into many idioms such as Spanish, French, Italian and German. However, this work is not very known in Brazil. Therefore, this study observe the author´s treatment of cultural, social, political and gender questions, in a period that comprehend almost a century of the Zimbabwean history, since the intensification of the colonizer occupation and the First Chimurenga (the liberation movement) until the period after the Second Chimurenga (the war for indepence), after 1980. The main focus of the dissertation is the study of the feminine representation in Vera s work, as it appear in her short-story collection Why Don t You Carve Other Animals? (1993), and in her novels Nehanda (1993), Without a Name (1994), Under the Tongue (1996), Butterfly Burning (1998), The Stone Virgins (2002): the construction of the feminine identity, the struggle for women´s emancipation, the position of women in the colonial society and in the fight for the liberation of the country from the colonial Power, as well as the difference introduced by the independence of the country in the lives of Zimbawean women. / O objetivo desta pesquisa e da dissertação dela resultante é a análise da obra ficcional de Yvone Vera, proeminente escritora do Zimbábue. Inscritos na literatura africana de língua inglesa, seus trabalhos são bem divulgados e estudados internacionalmente, contando com traduções em diversos idiomas como o espanhol, o francês, o italiano e o alemão. Todavia, essa obra é ainda pouco difundida no Brasil. Assim, este estudo observa o tratamento dado pela autora às questões culturais, sócio-políticas e de gênero, num período que cobre praticamente um século da história do Zimbábue, desde a intensificação da ocupação colonizadora e a Primeira Chimurenga (movimento de libertação) até o período posterior à Segunda Chimurenga (guerra pela independência), depois de 1980. O foco principal da dissertação é o estudo da representação do feminino na obra de Vera, tal como aparece na coletânea de contos Why Don t You Carve Other Animals? (1992) e nos romances Nehanda (1993), Without a Name (1994), Under the Tongue (1996), Butterfly Burning (1998), The Stone Virgins (2002): a construção da identidade feminina, a luta pela emancipação da mulher na sociedade colonial e na luta pela libertação do país do poder colonial, assim como a diferença introduzida pela independência na vida das mulheres do Zimbábue. Literatura do Zimbábue Representação do feminino Yvonne Vera
4	Music in Butterfly Burning Åkemark, Elisabet January 2009 (has links) This thesis discusses the role of music and musical sounds in Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera. It analyses the way that Vera has used music interlinked with the action of the novel. This thesis analyses a few areas where music is represented and is important such as: music as an element of healing/forgiveness; music as an element of hope; music as an element of despair; music as an element of working life and the absence of music. This thesis also briefly discusses who the narrator of the novel is and Vera’s writing technique that incorporates images with hypothetical sounds. The conclusion shows that music and musical sounds are important to the novel. It also shows that the music in Butterfly Burning can be compared to the music in a film. Vera has managed to combine the story of the novel and the description of music so that it becomes one inseparable unit. Yvonne Vera Zimbabwe music musical sounds in a novel despair working life healing forgiveness hope Specific Languages Studier av enskilda språk
5	Subject and History in Selected Works by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen Falk, Erik January 2007 (has links) <p>This study is concerned with subject formation in the fiction of contemporary postcolonial authors Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen. In contextualised readings of a total of nine works – Gurnah’s Admiring Silence (1996), By the Sea (2001), and Desertion (2005); Vera’s Without a Name (1996), Butterfly Burning (1998), and The Stone Virgins (2002); Dabydeen’s Disappearance (1993), Turner (1994), and A Harlot’s Progress (1999) – it explores thematic and formal aspects of the subject’s constitution in the texts. Investigating the representation of material and discursive traces that constitute the individual, this study has a double aim. First, it describes the particular historical formations that mould the individual in the different texts. Second, it investigates the tactics used to imaginatively upset these formations in order to present new and more enabling modes of being.</p><p>Gurnah’s fiction depicts the intricate meshwork of social codes, emotions, and narratives that shape subjectivity in a highly unstable and cosmopolitan social reality. His novels repeatedly thematise cultural disorientation, migration, and the efforts of establishing a minimum of social and narrative stability in the form of a home. The chapter reads Gurnah’s fiction against a background of Zanzibari history and diaspora and suggests that various forms of “entanglements” paradoxically provide the means to pull the subject out of states of anxiety and alienation into more viable states of being. Vera’s novels engage a powerful Zimbabwean discourse on history, and the psychic and bodily wounds that result from its violent impact on the subject. Set at moments of special and contested historical importance, her novels address the exclusions and silences of this discourse in order both to assess its effects and the possibilities of imagining alternative versions that would allow other modes of subjectivity. These possibilities are manifested, thematically and textually, through an improvisational form of “movement,” geographical, linguistic, and musical. Dabydeen’s fiction investigates the textual dimensions of identity and its connections to larger cultural archives of tropes and languages. Focusing on the constraining yet constitutive impact of various modes of colonial and racial rhetoric, his literary texts display a manipulation of textual elements from these archives that approaches a re-conception of the subject. To describe this manipulation of English and Caribbean sources, thematised and dramatically staged in his fiction, I am using Dabydeen’s own phrase, “creative amnesia.”</p> Abdulrazak Gurnah Yvonne Vera postcolonial literature entanglement movement creative amnesia Édouard Glissant Achille Mbembe David Dabydeen subject history subject formation English language Engelska språket
6	Subject and History in Selected Works by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen Falk, Erik January 2007 (has links) This study is concerned with subject formation in the fiction of contemporary postcolonial authors Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen. In contextualised readings of a total of nine works – Gurnah’s Admiring Silence (1996), By the Sea (2001), and Desertion (2005); Vera’s Without a Name (1996), Butterfly Burning (1998), and The Stone Virgins (2002); Dabydeen’s Disappearance (1993), Turner (1994), and A Harlot’s Progress (1999) – it explores thematic and formal aspects of the subject’s constitution in the texts. Investigating the representation of material and discursive traces that constitute the individual, this study has a double aim. First, it describes the particular historical formations that mould the individual in the different texts. Second, it investigates the tactics used to imaginatively upset these formations in order to present new and more enabling modes of being. Gurnah’s fiction depicts the intricate meshwork of social codes, emotions, and narratives that shape subjectivity in a highly unstable and cosmopolitan social reality. His novels repeatedly thematise cultural disorientation, migration, and the efforts of establishing a minimum of social and narrative stability in the form of a home. The chapter reads Gurnah’s fiction against a background of Zanzibari history and diaspora and suggests that various forms of “entanglements” paradoxically provide the means to pull the subject out of states of anxiety and alienation into more viable states of being. Vera’s novels engage a powerful Zimbabwean discourse on history, and the psychic and bodily wounds that result from its violent impact on the subject. Set at moments of special and contested historical importance, her novels address the exclusions and silences of this discourse in order both to assess its effects and the possibilities of imagining alternative versions that would allow other modes of subjectivity. These possibilities are manifested, thematically and textually, through an improvisational form of “movement,” geographical, linguistic, and musical. Dabydeen’s fiction investigates the textual dimensions of identity and its connections to larger cultural archives of tropes and languages. Focusing on the constraining yet constitutive impact of various modes of colonial and racial rhetoric, his literary texts display a manipulation of textual elements from these archives that approaches a re-conception of the subject. To describe this manipulation of English and Caribbean sources, thematised and dramatically staged in his fiction, I am using Dabydeen’s own phrase, “creative amnesia.” Abdulrazak Gurnah Yvonne Vera postcolonial literature entanglement movement creative amnesia Édouard Glissant Achille Mbembe David Dabydeen subject history subject formation English language Engelska språket
7	Gebrochenes Schweigen / Körper, Gewalt und Erinnerung in der zimbabwischen Literatur der 90er Jahre Neumann, Stephanie 30 September 2003 (has links) In der zimbawischen Literatur sind die Themen Nation, Körper, Gewalt, Sprache und Erinnerung aufs engste miteinander verbunden. Durch den Einfluß von Yvonne Vera hat sich in den 90er Jahren das Bild des weiblichen Körpers und insbesondere die Diskussion um koloniale und postkoloniale Gewalt deutlich verändert. Im ersten Teil der Arbeit geht es um die Frage nach Nation. Unterschiedliche Darstellungen von Nehanda und den Kämpferinnen des 2. Chimurenga werden näher beleuchtet. Außerdem geht es um Veras "pastoral novel" in der sie von einer weißen Farmersfrau erzählt. Im zweiten Teil geht es um die Körperkonzepte in der zimbabwischen Literatur. Gewalt in der Familie und vor allem der weibliche Körper als Schlachtfeld steht hier im Mittelpunkt. Die Vergewaltigte und die Prostituierte sind auch weiterhin Symbole für den kolonisierten afrikanischen Kontinent. Vera versucht diese Frauen aus einer anderen Perspektive zu betrachten. Bei ihr geht es um die Erfahrung der Frauen selbst. Der dritte Teil der Arbeit befasst sich schließlich mit der Frage nach der Darstellbarkeit von Gewalt. Wie ist es möglich von Gewalt zu erzählen, ohne die Gewalt zu reproduzieren? Vera beantwortet diese Frage mit der Reflexion über des Erzählen. Bei ihr wirkt Sprache heilend. / In Zimbabwean literature, the themes of nation, body, violence, language, and memory are closely connected. The dissertation analyses, how the treatment of these themes changed significantly during the 1990s. The focus lies on Yvonne Vera's work and its influence on the image of the female body and the debate about colonial as well as postcolonial violence. The first part deals with the question of nation at the example of various narratives about Nehanda and other female freedom fighters in the Second Chimurenga. Further material is drawn from Vera's "pastural novel", in which she tells about a white settler woman. The second part looks at body concepts in Zimbabwean literature. Special attention is paid to domestic violence and the image of the female body as battlefield. The raped woman and the prostitute are still widely used as symbols for the colonized African continent. Vera tries to break with this tradition by looking at such female characters from the perspective of their own experiences. The third part, finally, raises the issue of the representation of violence. How is possible to write about violence without reproducing it? Vera answers this question by reflecting about narration. Language thus works as a healing power in her texts. Gewalt Körper weibliches Schreiben Afrika afrikanische Literatur Zimbabwe Yvonne Vera Dambudzo Marechera Nation Erinnerung Vergewaltigung Prostitution Inzest Kindesmord Nehanda Chimurenga Postkolonialismus Kolonialismus violence body Africa african literature Zimbabwe Yvonne Vera Dambudzo Marechera Nation Memory rape prostitution incest child-murder Nehanda Chimurenga postkolonialism kolonialism 10 Philosophie EP 20111 ddc:100
8	Entre violence et resistance : la réinsertion de la femme africaine subsaharienne dans l'histoire / Between violence and resistance : the reintegration of the Sub-saharan African woman in History / Entre violencia y resistencia : la reintegración de la mujer africana subsahariana a la Historia Martinez, Kamir 12 January 2018 (has links) Se situant dans l’histoire immédiate, la littérature africaine contemporaine participe de la dénonciation de la violence des régimes postcoloniaux et des guerres civiles. Ce sont des nouvelles formes d’écriture caractérisées à la fois par l’urgence et par l’intention de s’éloigner des formes européennes, donnant lieu à une expression universelle et à la revendication du roman comme œuvre d’art. Cette contribution se propose, à partir de neufs romans francophones, anglophones et hispanophones publiés entre 1990 et 2000, d’explorer et d’analyser la réinsertion de la femme africaine subsaharienne dans les archives officielles. À travers des témoignages fictionnels inspirés des faits réels et des histoires relevant de la sphère privée, ces auteur(e)s créent un nouvel imaginaire sur la femme africaine évoluant entre violence et résistance. Par une approche interdisciplinaire, nous tenterons d’identifier les images de la femme dans ces romans, ainsi que les moyens stylistiques et langagiers dans le processus de la réinterprétation des archives et de la réinsertion de la femme africaine subsaharienne dans l’Histoire. / In relation to the immediate history, contemporary African literature contributes to the denunciation of the violence of postcolonial regimes and civil wars. These new forms of writing are characterized both by the urgency and by the intention to move away from European forms, giving rise to a universalizing writing and the claim of the novel as a work of art. This contribution is proposed, from nine Francophone, Anglophone and Hispanophone novels published between 1990 and 2000, to explore and analyse the reintegration of Sub-Saharan African women in the official archives. Through fictional testimonies inspired by real facts and stories of the private sphere, these authors create a new imagination about African women evolving between violence and resistance. Through an interdisciplinary approach, we will try to identify the images of the woman in these novels, as well as the stylistic and linguistic means in the process of the reinterpretation of the archives and the reintegration of the African Sub-Saharan woman in history. / En relación a la historia inmediata, la literatura africana contemporánea contribuye a la denuncia de la violencia de los regímenes poscoloniales y de las guerras civiles. Estas nuevas formas de escritura se caracterizan tanto por la urgencia de escribir como por la intención de alejarse de las formas de expresión europeas, dando lugar a una escritura universal y a la reivindicación de la novela como obra de arte. Esta contribución se propone de explorar y analizar la reintegración de las mujeres africanas subsaharianas a los archivos oficiales, a partir de nueve novelas de expresión francesa, inglesa y española, publicadas entre 1990 y 2000. A través de testimonios ficticios inspirados por hechos reales e historias de la vida privada, estos autores y autoras crean una nueva imagen de las mujeres africanas desenvolviéndose entre la violencia y la resistencia. A través de un enfoque interdisciplinario, intentaremos identificar las imágenes de la mujer en estas novelas, así como el estilo y el lenguaje en el proceso de reinterpretación de los archivos y la reintegración de la mujer africana subsahariana en la historia. Femme africaine et littérature Femme africaine et violence Femme-Soldat Enfant-Soldat Femme africaine et résistance Mémoire et témoignage Violence et fiction Viol et guerre Littérature et histoire Ahmadou Kourouma Koulsy Lamko Tanella Boni Yvonne Vera Delia Jarrett-Macauley Emmanuel Dongala Alain Mabanckou Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo Léonora Miano African woman and literature African woman and violence Female-soldier Child-soldier African woman and resistance Memory and testimony Violence and fiction Rape and war Literature and history Ahmadou Kourouma Koulsy Lamko Tanella Boni Yvonne Vera Delia Jarrett-Macauley Emmanuel Dongala Alain Mabanckou Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo Léonora Miano Mujer africana y literatura Mujer africana y violence Mujer soldado Niño soldado Mujer africana y resistencia Memoria y testimonio Violencia y ficción Abuso sexual y guerra Historia y literatura Ahmadou Kourouma Koulsy Lamko Tanella Boni Yvonne Vera Delia Jarrett-Macauley Emmanuel Dongala Alain Mabanckou Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo Léonora Miano

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