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No. of bitstreams: 1 LILIA NOGIEIRA C HORTA.pdf: 6507327 bytes, checksum: bd4b4fbb2222c42c48525e5dadc0ef57 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-31 / The film narratives of Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki - theme of this research - expose some issues that involve life in society by questioning situations and stereotypes through their hybrid aesthetics, and mainly through their female characters In this way, we take as theoretical object the consumption of aesthetics hybrid - in which the female characters are found - and the layers of memory there involved. In this sense, this research has as general objective to identify the composition of the female representations and how the transgressive character of them is given. We adopt specific objectives: to understand how the anime genre emerged and to contextualize the course of Hayao Miyazaki as director of animation. Understand how Hayao Miyazaki are embedded in a context of production and media consumption, demonstrating negotiations between the director and the animation industry. Verify that his aesthetic is constructed, from the textual memory and analysis of the composition of the scenarios, characters, plot, costumes and other aspects. Analyze how make up the female representations in the works of Hayao Miyazaki and, finally, to verify how the female characters produce a representation of memory that subverts the memory of what we understand as a Japanese woman. For this, an analysis is made from a corpus of ten works scripted and directed by the director [Ponyo: A Friendship that Came of the Sea (2008), the Service of Deliveries of Kiki (1989), The Castle animated (2004), Princess Mononoke (1997), My Friend Totoro (1988), Porco Rosso: The Last Romantic Hero (1992), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Lives to the Wind (2013), The Journey of Chihiro (2001), The Castle in the Sky (1986)]. In order to highlight the female characters, formulating a methodological framework dividing them into six phases: children, girls, youth, adults, mothers and the elderly. Using the basilar pillars: consumption and communication; memory; women were bibliographical and documentary research, mobilizing authors such as Lotman, Le Goff, Halbwachs, Pollak, Canclini, Rocha, Martel, Miyazaki, Luyten, Barbosa Junior, Sato, Laurel, Hane, among others, with different theoretical contributions. The results demonstrate that the awakens, through his women and his hybrid aesthetics, a critical thinking in which one makes possible to question about aspects concretized by society and to think about the possibility of change and restart. / As narrativas fílmicas do diretor de animação japonês Hayao Miyazaki – tema da presente pesquisa – expõem algumas questões que envolvem a vida em sociedade ao questionar situações e estereótipos através da sua estética híbrida, e principalmente por meio das suas personagens femininas. Desta forma, tomamos como objeto teórico o consumo da estética híbrida – na qual se encontram as personagens femininas – e das camadas de memória aí implicadas. Nesse sentido, esta investigação tem como objetivo geral identificar a composição das representações femininas e como se dá o caráter transgressor das mesmas. Adotamos como objetivos específicos: compreender como surgiu o gênero animê e contextualizar o percurso de Hayao Miyazaki como diretor de animação. Entender de que forma as obras de Hayao Miyazaki estão inseridas em um contexto de produção e consumo midiático, demonstrando negociações feitas entre o diretor e indústria de animação. Verificar de que maneira é construída sua estética, a partir da memória textual e análise da composição dos cenários, das personagens, do enredo, do figurino e outros aspectos. Analisar como se compõem as representações femininas nas obras de Hayao Miyazaki e, por fim, verificar como as personagens femininas produzem uma representação de memória que subverte a memória do que entendemos como mulher japonesa. Para tal, é feita uma análise a partir de um corpus de dez obras roteirizadas e dirigidas pelo diretor [Ponyo: Uma Amizade que Veio do Mar (2008), O Serviço de Entregas da Kiki (1989), O Castelo Animado (2004), Princesa Mononoke (1997), Meu Amigo Totoro (1988), Porco Rosso: O Último Herói Romântico (1992), Nausicaä do Vale do Vento (1984), Vidas ao Vento (2013), A Viagem de Chihiro (2001), O Castelo no Céu (1986)]. De modo a destacar as personagens mulheres, formulando um quadro metodológico dividindo-as em seis fases: crianças, garotas, jovens, adultas, mães e idosas. Valendo-se dos pilares basilares: consumo e comunicação; memória; mulheres, foram adotadas pesquisas bibliográficas e documentais, mobilizando autores como Lotman, Le Goff, Halbwachs, Pollak, Canclini, Rocha, Martel, Miyazaki, Luyten, Barbosa Júnior, Sato, Louro, Hane, entre outros, com diferentes aportes teóricos. Os resultados demonstram que o diretor desperta, através de suas mulheres e sua estética híbrida, um pensamento crítico no qual se faz possível questionarmos a respeito de aspectos concretizados pela sociedade e pensarmos na possibilidade de mudanças e recomeço.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T11:07:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EDNA RODRIGUES ARAUJO.pdf: 816252 bytes, checksum: 9f1c67137f3fab4e1dcfd1115e4639e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-18 / This paper shows, through critical analysis, the comic Mannerist work in O exército de um homem só, by Moacyr Scliar. The hybrids character of the comic and its variations are significant elements for the laugher composition in this narrative. From this, it was asked if the work by Moacyr Scliar has Mannerist features. The methodological study and qualitative research studied the laughter with emphasis on concept of mannerism, emphasizing it not as a period style, but as aesthetic effect. The objective of this research is to analyze the method of production of the comic, exposing, from mannerism, the construction of laughter. The result confirms that, in fact, the work has Mannerist characteristics by innovating the way of presenting the narrative. This work is important because can support future researches, for literature teachers and others interested in dichotomous spheres dealing with the real and unreal, rational and irrational. Thus, it can be proved that the mannerism as aesthetic effect shows that there are not innocent words in the construction of the work in O exército de um homem só, and that the humor, of this novel, can bewitch, shock, incite or displease, presented it about different shades / O presente trabalho visa mostrar, por meio da análise crítica, a comicidade maneirista na obra O exército de um homem só, de Moacyr Scliar. O caráter híbrido do cômico e suas variações são elementos significativos para a composição do riso nessa narrativa. A partir disto, questiona-se se a obra de Moacyr Scliar possui características maneiristas. A pesquisa de cunho metodológico com abordagem qualitativa estudou o riso com ênfase no conceito de Maneirismo, enfatizando-o não como estilo de época, mas como efeito estético. Assim, o objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar o modo de obtenção da comicidade, expondo, a partir do Maneirismo, a construção do riso. O resultado obtido confirma que, de fato, a obra possui características maneiristas por inovar a forma de apresentar a narrativa. Esta dissertação se justifica por ser uma obra importante para pesquisas futuras, para professores de literatura e demais interessados. Sendo assim, pode-se comprovar que o Maneirismo, como efeito estético, mostra que não há palavras inocentes na construção discursiva na obra O exército de um homem só, e que o humor, nessa novela, pode enfeitiçar, chocar, incitar ou desagradar, apresentando-se sob diferentes matizes.

The liberal peace framework has in the past two decades experienced an increased amount of criticism for its uniform strategies, with several alternatives being presented as a response. One such an alternative is the framework of the post-liberal peace. Although researched in multiple articles by various scholars, Richmond’s (2011) book A Post-Liberal Peace is the most extensive piece on the subject and has therefore chiefly been used in the analysis of this paper. While previous studies and literature has examined different aspects of the post-liberal peace, none had considered a country’s foreign policy both in general and specific to one country. The prior neglection of Sweden and Afghanistan led to a focus of the two countries in this study. The aim of this paper was to fill the gap in the literature on the post-liberal peace framework as applied to a country’s foreign policy, thereby illuminating whether Sweden’s foreign policy adheres to the post-liberal peace framework. Text analysis was employed so as to critically examine the Swedish foreign policy by looking at certain concepts, in addition to implicit and explicit statements made relating to values inherent to the post-liberal peace framework. The hypothesis of this study claimed that Sweden’s social democratic feminist foreign policies adhere to the post-liberal peace framework and therefore would illustrate the proposed likeness between Sweden’s social democratic foreign policy and the post-liberal peace framework. The results from the data analysis displayed several qualities that adhered to the above-stated framework, while also exhibiting a number of inconsistencies and indubitably contrasting values. In sum, the study provides evidence that the social democratic feminist foreign policy of Sweden to a certain extent share similarity with the post-liberal peace framework, thereby partly confirming the hypothesis.

No romance The Famished Road (1991), o autor nigeriano Ben Okri dá uma nova dimensão à figura da criança-espírito ou abiku, que é um motivo recorrente entre os iorubás e em diversas outras culturas da África ocidental. Como um fenômeno da crença dessas culturas, o abiku é um tema característico da narrativa oral africana, tendo sido usado também em várias obras da literatura africana de língua inglesa. Okri realiza, contudo, uma inovação ao transformar o abiku no narrador de seu romance. Uma vez que essa criatura é um in between, vivendo permanentemente na intersecção entre o mundo dos vivos e o dos mortos, a estrutura da obra literária é alterada pela realidade vista pelos seus olhos. A sua visão é composta pelas imagens da simultaneidade entre esses mundos. Na construção de seu romance, Okri tenta traduzir essa visão para um público leitor ocidental, utilizando ao mesmo tempo paradigmas da oralidade africana e da literatura ocidental. O romance se coloca, assim, num espaço de transição entre a cultura africana e a ocidental. São utilizados métodos e estratégias narrativas de ambas as tradições e o próprio fenômeno do abiku é investido por outras concepções mais ocidentais a respeito da ressurreição da alma. O objetivo desta dissertação é mostrar, de acordo com uma perspectiva crítica pós-colonial, como esse romance se constrói como uma obra híbrida entre os modos de se perceber e de se retratar a realidade característicos de cada uma dessas culturas. / In the novel The Famished Road (1991) Nigerian author Ben Okri gives a new dimension to the spirit child or abiku\'s image, which is a recurrent motif among the Yoruba and many other cultures from West Africa. The abiku is a characteristic subject of the African oral narrative and is also present in some African literature in English as the abiku is part of the belief of those cultures. However, Okri undertakes an innovation, turning the abiku into the narrator of his novel. Since this creature is an in between, living permanently in the intersection between the world of the living and the world of the dead, the structure of the literary work is altered by the reality as it is seen through his eyes. His vision is made up by the simultaneous images of those two worlds. In the construction of his novel, Okri tries to translate this vision to a Western reading audience, using paradigms from both the African orality and Western literature. Thus, the novel is placed in a transitional space between African and Western cultures. Narrative methods and strategies from both traditions are used and the abiku phenomenon itself is invested by other more Western conceptions about the soul\'s resurrection. This dissertation aims to reveal from a postcolonial theoretical perspective how this novel is constructed as a hybrid work between the modes of perceiving and depicting reality characteristic of each one of these cultures.

Muito além da delimitação de bordas para a ficção, o documentário, o filme-ensaio, o experimental e outros tantos, percebemos que há um amálgama entre esses territórios na linguagem audiovisual contemporânea. Esta pesquisa busca investigar espaços de hibridação, compreender suas aproximações e distanciamentos. Para isso, selecionamos como objetos de estudo dois filmes brasileiros, ambos dos diretores Karim Aïnouz e Marcelo Gomes: o curta documental Sertão de acrílico azul piscina (2004) e o longa ficcional Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo (2009). Na análise da tessitura narrativa das obras, pretendemos elaborar um espaço de intersecção, um entremeio narrativo a partir de suas camadas indexadoras, considerando a emissão e a produção das obras. Da mesma forma, na esfera da recepção discursiva, abordamos a necessidade da construção de um modo de leitura hibridizante, que dê conta das impressões e sensações percebidas pelo espectador em seu contato com esses filmes, compostos a partir de um entremeio, cujas fronteiras não podem ser delimitadas senão por um vasto espaço de intersecção. / Far beyond the delimitation of borders for fiction, documentary, essay film, experimental and so many, we realize that there is an amalgamation between these territories in contemporary audiovisual language. This research aims to investigate hybridization spaces, in order to understand their approximations and distances. With this purpose, we have selected as objects of study two Brazilian films, both directed by Karim Aïnouz and Marcelo Gomes: the documentary Sertão de acrílico azul piscina (2004) and the fiction I travel because I have to, I come back because I love you (Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo, 2009). In the analysis of the films narrative structure, we intend to elaborate a space of intersection, an intermediate narrative from its indexing layers, considering the emission and the production of the works. Similarly, in the sphere of discursive reception, we approach the need to construct a hybridized reading mode, sufficiency for the impressions and sensations perceived by the viewer in his or her contact with these films, composed of an intersection, which borders should not be bounded unless by a vast space of intersection.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:25:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Everton L L de Matos - pre textual.pdf: 210761 bytes, checksum: 94c893042cffcd3ee385dcb371a7c7c1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-27 / The choro, he cultivates an instrumental genre improvisational style, has been transformed in the course of its history, both in melody and harmony. The first cries compounds possessed simple harmonies, making the soloists of the time to interpret differently from today. The different treatments harmonics, which have arisen over time, seem to have been one of the leaders of these different interpretations, which have been shown in an intense and characteristic improvisation. Apparently, there was an increase in these transformations of choro with the rapid development of technology and media from the mid-twentieth century. This circumstance, perhaps, brought a more intense and immediate contact of this musical genre with global genres such as jazz, for example, as a new and intense focus on improvisation, which has drawn attention to formal structures and performing hybrid performances. The intensification of cultivation of Jazz in the country and later the emergence of Bossa Nova in the mid-twentieth century, it seems, interfered markedly in the improvisation of gender, providing new composers to invest in new procedures related to this harmonic American genre. Given this circumstance, this study aimed to investigate the technical and cultural implications resulting from the interference of different harmonics in procedures related to the processes of improvisation and musical genre choro in this context not only seek melodic and harmonic innovations, but also processes of identity implicated in processes of cultural hybridization. / O choro, um gênero instrumental que cultiva o estilo improvisatório, sofreu transformações no decorrer da sua história, tanto na melodia, quanto na harmonia. Os primeiros choros compostos possuíam harmonias simples, fazendo que os solistas da época interpretassem de maneira diferente dos atuais. Os diferentes tratamentos harmônicos, que foram surgindo ao longo do tempo, parecem ter sido um dos principais responsáveis por essas interpretações distintas, que têm se evidenciado de forma intensa e característica na improvisação. Ao que tudo indica, houve um incremento nessas transformações do choro com o grande desenvolvimento da tecnologia e da mídia a partir de meados do século XX. Essa circunstância, possivelmente, trouxe um contato mais intenso e imediato desse gênero musical com gêneros globais, como o Jazz, por exemplo, assim como um novo e intenso foco na improvisação, o que tem apontado para estruturas formais e atuações performáticas híbridas. A intensificação do cultivo do Jazz no país e, posteriormente, o surgimento da Bossa Nova em meados do século XX, ao que tudo indica, interferiram de forma marcante na improvisação do gênero, propiciando aos novos compositores investirem em novos procedimentos harmônicos relacionados a esse gênero americano. Tendo em vista esta circunstância, esse trabalho teve como objetivo investigar as implicações técnicas e culturais resultantes da interferência de diferentes procedimentos harmônicos nos processos de improvisação relacionados ao gênero musical choro e, nesse contexto, buscar não apenas inovações melódicas e harmônicas, mas também processos identitários implicados com processos de hibridação cultural.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:42:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tania Cristina de Paula.pdf: 7806384 bytes, checksum: 90e6d8ccb0241240865b98264871d22a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-17 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / This research proposes a critic about artifacts that appear from the confluence with design and craftwork thought from the concept of cultural hybridity. Furthermore, this research seeks to understand the socializing in contemporary artifacts of material and symbolic aspects of urban-industrial society and the traditional cultures, as well as modes of craftwork production. Also, this investigation aims to reflect if the concept of cultural hybridity and hybrid adjective, concepts that comes from the cultural studies, are adequate to describe, qualify or even characterize artifacts made under the meeting of the design and the craftwork. This research is under the light of Peter Burke and Néstor García Canclini's hybrid cultural conceptions and seeks to understand the phenomenon in a contemporaneous context. In addition, this research is searching to understand the multiple aspects and scope of design and craftwork activities regarding a material culture, as well as investigate the recognition of hybrid artifacts in Brazil and to verify the possibility of analyzing the artifacts from the processes of cultural hybridization. / A presente pesquisa propõe uma reflexão crítica sobre artefatos que surgem da confluência do design com o artesanato à luz do conceito de hibridismo cultural. Busca compreender o convívio em artefatos contemporâneos de aspectos materiais e simbólicos da sociedade urbano-industrial e de culturas tradicionais, assim como os modos de produção artesanal. Esta investigação busca refletir sobre a adequação do conceito de hibridismo cultural e o adjetivo híbrido, provenientes dos estudos culturais, para descrever, qualificar ou caracterizar artefatos elaborados a partir do encontro do design com o artesanato. Para realizar tal reflexão, esta pesquisa se dá sob a ótica das concepções de hibridismo cultural de Peter Burke e Néstor García Canclini e busca conhecer o fenômeno no contexto da contemporaneidade. Busca também compreender os múltiplos aspectos e a abrangência das atividades design e artesanato no âmbito da cultura material, assim como, investigar o reconhecimento dos artefatos híbridos no Brasil e verificar a possibilidade de analisar os artefatos a partir dos processos de hibridização cultural.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Priante Uga.pdf: 4890359 bytes, checksum: df5b2f3484d7600f909d870d7b93011e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Having as corpus of study four texts from the baiano poet Pedro Kilkerry (1885-1917) usually taken as examples of poetic prose, the main objective of this research is to analyze these texts in the light of the literary genre developed and broadcasted by Baudelaire: the poem in prose, hybrid genre that enlaces characteristics from poetry and prose. As a dialogic genre, the poem in prose tends to apart from the unitary and traditional language of the lyrical genre, considered as monologic in the theory of Bakhtin. To conduct these reflections, the following proposals were developed: the poems in prose of Kilkerry manifest both the presence of the modernist tradition of Baudelaire, in which unite criticism and irony, as the more hermetic and symbolical of Mallarmé and Rimbaud; the poems in prose of Kilkerry, in comparison with the author s work in verse, represent a literary field favorable for both the development of the ironic-criticism as the inscription of a new poetical language, protagonist's own speech. The bases for the work are the reflections over the prose and poetry elaborated by Mikhail Bakhtin, Gaston Bachelard, Octavio Paz and Edgar Morin, besides the concepts on the prose poem formulated by Suzanne Bernard and María Torremocha. Starting with the correlation between the theoretical fundaments and the analysis of the composition of the four poems in prose of Kilkerry, it is demonstrated how, inside them, the presence of the esthetic modern-symbolist takes place, outlining the articulations between the lyrical and the prosaic, outlining the critical-ironical aspect of the texts / Tendo como corpus de estudo quatro textos do poeta baiano Pedro Kilkerry (1885-1917), que são normalmente tidos como exemplos de prosa poética, o objetivo central desta pesquisa é analisar estes textos no âmbito do gênero literário difundido por Baudelaire: o poema em prosa, gênero híbrido que comporta características tanto da prosa quanto da poesia. Como gênero dialógico, o poema em prosa tende a cindir com a linguagem unitária e tradicional do gênero lírico, considerado como monológico na teoria de Bakhtin. Para conduzir estas reflexões, propomos as seguintes hipóteses: os poemas em prosa de Kilkerry manifestam a presença tanto da tradição modernista baudelairiana, na qual se unem crítica e ironia, quanto a mais hermética e simbolista de Mallarmé e Rimbaud; os poemas em prosa de Kilkerry, em comparação com sua produção em verso, representam um campo literário favorável tanto para o desenvolvimento do viés crítico-irônico quanto para a inscrição de uma nova linguagem poética, protagonista do próprio discurso. Fundamentam este trabalho reflexões sobre prosa e poesia elaboradas por Mikhail Bakhtin, Gaston Bachelard, Octavio Paz e Edgar Morin, além de conceituações sobre o poema em prosa formuladas por Suzanne Bernard e María Torremocha. A partir da correlação entre os fundamentos teóricos e a análise da composição dos quatro poemas em prosa de Kilkerry, demonstramos como se dá, neles, a presença da estética moderno-simbolista, ressaltando quer as articulações entre o lírico e o prosaico, quer o caráter crítico-irônico destes textos

À la charnière des XIIIe et XIVe siècles un long cycle épique s’est constitué autour de Huon de Bordeaux. Ce que la critique appelle la Chanson d’Yde et Olive, pour indiquer la troisième continuation, regroupe en réalité trois unités narratives distinctes, Yde et Olive I, Croissant et Yde et Olive II, consacrées aux aventures de la petite fille et de l’arrière-petit-fils du héros bordelais. Dans ma thèse je propose une nouvelle édition critique, un commentaire et une étude de la réception en Italie de ces textes qui, quoique méconnus, constituent un échantillon représentatif de la plasticité de l’épopée, notamment tardive, puisant dans le même réservoir narratif que les contes, les légendes hagiographiques, les romans et les pièces dramatiques. De plus, Yde et Olive I a sans doute contribué à transmettre la fabuleuse histoire d’Yde au-delà des Alpes, comme en témoignent les cantari d’Antonio Pucci et de Piero de Sienne qui reprennent le même schéma narratif. Ainsi, à la lisière entre oralité et écriture, la Chanson d’Yde et Olive dialogue avec d’autres textes appartenant à des genres et à des langues différents, tout en nourrissant un imaginaire littéraire partagé et en suscitant un questionnement sur l’ordre établi de la société qui entre en résonance avec notre époque qui se dit moderne. / A long epic cycle written at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries built up the chanson of Huon de Bordeaux. What scholars call the Chanson d’Yde et Olive, to intend the third sequel, unites three different episodes, Yde et Olive I, Croissant and Yde et Olive II, which relate the adventures of the granddaughter and the great-grandson of the hero of Bordeaux. In my thesis, I propose a new critical edition, a commentary and a study of the transmission in Italy of these heretofore unrecognized texts which represent a typical sample of the late chansons de geste. In the 13th and 14th centuries, epic draws from the same narrative patterns as the tales, the hagiographic legends, the novels and the dramas. Furthermore, Yde et Olive I has undoubtedly contributed to transmit Yde’s fabulous history beyond the Alps, as the plot of the Italian cantari of Antonio Pucci and Piero da Siena seems to prove.So at the boundary between orality and writing, the Chanson d’Yde et Olive interacts with several texts belonging to different literary genres, enriches an imaginary which does not know any border, interrogates the established order and finally confronts us with the boundary of male/female divides.

This thesis aims at exploring the consequences of migration in Jhumpa Lahirir¡¦s novel The Namesake. Set in India and America, the story represents such immigrant experiences as the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and the tangled ties between generations. In addition to introduction and conclusion, the thesis consists of three chapters, devoted respectively to issues of nostalgia, identity, and cultural hybridity. Chapter One explores the way nostalgia affects the Ganguli family in their daily life, including such aspects as food, clothing, their circle of friends, festivals and celebrations. To analyze Indian immigrants¡¦ longing for home and their attempts to retain homeland culture, I employ Svetlana Boym¡¦s theory on nostalgia, wherein two kinds of nostalgia are distinguished: the restorative and the reflective. Chapter Two focuses on immigrants¡¦ identity formation. The process of identity formation is associated with naming and generational problems. I adopt the Freudian theory of the Oedipus complex to explain the father-son conflicts: how the protagonist defies his father as well as the name given by him. Then, drawing upon Cathy Caruth¡¦s concept of traumatic awakening, I trace how the protagonist reconciles with his father and reaches maturity. Chapter Three examines how immigrants come to invent a hybrid cultural identity. I employ Homi Bhabha¡¦s concepts of in-bewteenness and the Third Space to point out the interplay of the Bengali heritage and the dominant American culture, which results in the phenomenon of a new, dynamic, and mixed culture. With globalization, borders and boundaries are constantly changing so that migration comes to be typical of human condition. In this sense, the immigrant experience stated in The Namesake foregrounds problems which might be encountered by all diasporas.