This dissertation explores the unique political and cultural possibilities that public performance held for Native American activists and artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Not only did these performance texts, generated in multiple genres, offer a counternarrative to the mainstream discourse of Native assimilation, they also provided Native writer-performers with a vehicle for embodying tribally-specific epistemologies, cosmologies, and diplomatic histories. These Native dramatists transformed the stage into a site of political possibility left unrealized on the printed page, a site where they could revise images of their peoples from shadows and stereotypes to sovereign nations. Included in this study are analyses of the speaking tours of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins/Thocmetony (Northern Paiute), the performance poetry of Emily Pauline Johnson/Tekahionwake (Mohawk), an opera co-written by Gertrude Bonnin/Zitkala-Ša (Yankton Dakota), and pageants performed by the Garden River First Nation (Ketegaunseebee Anishinaabe). Drawing primarily on contemporary scholarship in Native American literary studies, including American Indian literary nationalism and internationalism, the burgeoning work in Native American performance studies, and methodologies from theater history, the following chapters contextualize both printed and performance versions of these texts with tribally-specific political, economic, and cultural histories, as well as performance reviews and broader federal Indian policy of the time. / text

This dissertation traces the historical emergence of what I call the romance with Melville during the postwar moment and argues that its striking endurance demands that we rethink the relationship between the discipline’s past and present. For the enduring vitality of the romance with Melville throughout the twentieth century points to deep continuities across major cuts in the discipline’s history. These continuities that the romance makes visible suggest that the discipline’s past is not so monolithically invested in masculinism, nationalism, and racism as many dominant voices have claimed it was, and also that the discipline’s present has not broken with its predecessors as completely as many had thought. I begin with a chapter that introduces the prevalence of the romance with Melville in American literary history, interrogates why Melville’s work lends itself so readily to this hermeneutic move, and articulates how the persistence of this move upsets the authoritative histories of American literary studies. My second chapter describes how Melville’s final story Billy Budd elicited a remarkably explicit transatlantic conversation about the affective and political ramifications of postwar heteronormativity. Chapter 3 examines C.L.R. James’s conversation with postwar Americanists about Moby-Dick, a conversation in which James sought to galvanize the critical community to fight the anti-democratic Cold War immigration laws under which James himself was being deported. My final chapter analyzes Ralph Ellison’s use of Moby-Dick, “Bartleby,” “Benito Cereno,” and The Confidence-Man to argue that American literature is fundamentally concerned with and informed by issues of racial injustice and inequality. In both his literary criticism and his fiction, Ellison, I argue, used Melville’s writing to criticize the racial negligence of American literary critics and to reflect on the ironies of his own abiding loyalty to white canonical writers like Melville. When one follows the various permutations of the romance with Melville in this moment and attends to the contestations it facilitated, one finds a rich, politically multivalent critical discourse that in many important but unacknowledged ways lays the groundwork for the political desires and textual attachments that continue to animate American literary studies. / text

Orientador: Arnaldo Franco Junior / Banca: Fábio Akcelrud Durão / Banca: Lúcia Granja / Banca: Márcio Scheel / Banca: Sílvia Maria Azevedo / Resumo: Este estudo resulta de pesquisa que buscou estudar, analisar e interpretar a relação entre a crítica literária acadêmica brasileira e a presença e permanência de problemas críticos, teóricos e historiográficos próprios ao nacionalismo literário na cultura brasileira da segunda metade do século XX. Teve o objetivo de explorar a discussão de problemas críticos, teóricos e historiográficos na obra de três críticos literários acadêmicos brasileiros de grande importância: Antonio Candido, Roberto Schwarz e Haroldo de Campos. Essa exploração se deu através de um ponto de vista que pretende ser, simultaneamente, crítico, teórico e historiográfico. Também teve o objetivo de mostrar como permanece na crítica literária acadêmica alguns dos mesmos problemas e dos mesmos dilemas nacionalistas que têm origem na primeira metade do século XIX. Buscou-se historiar, criticamente, o processo da constituição e desenvolvimento do propalado mal-estar intelectual que afeta intelectuais brasileiros de todos os matizes em razão daquilo que chamamos de cultura de ajustamento cultural e intelectual, mostrando que a reflexão sobre o mal-estar intelectual se tornou um valor próprio ao pensamento crítico literário brasileiro. Buscou-se, por fim, analisar a importância e a influência da Formação da literatura brasileira graças ao fato de o livro ter burlado o formato tradicional da historiografia literária nacional / Abstract: This study results from the research that aimed at studying, analyzing and interpreting the relationship between the Brazilian academic literary criticism and the presence and permanence of critical, theoretical and historiographical problems peculiar to the literary nationalism in the Brazilian culture of the second half of century XX. It aimed at exploring the discussion of critical, theoretical and historiographical problems in the work of three Brazilian academic literary critics of great importance: Antônio Cândido, Roberto Schwarz and Haroldo de Campos. This exploration was carried out through a viewpoint that intends to be, simultaneously, critical, theoretical and historiographical. It also had the purpose of showing how some of the same problems and of the same nationalisit dilemas stand in the academic literary critics, originated in the first half of century XX. The aim was to critically write down the process of constitution and development of the spread uneasiness that affects brazilian intellectuals of all shades due to the so called culture of cultural and intellectual adjustment, showing that the thought about the intellectual uneasiness has become a value peculiar to the brazilian critical literary thinking. Finally, one aimed at analyzing the importance and the influence of the Brazilian literature formation thanks to the fact that the book has cheated the traditional format of the national literary historiography / Doutor

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SOUSA, Antonio Marcos Cabral. Alencar: a nação em cartas. 2010. 124f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Literatura, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Fortaleza-CE, 2010. / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2012-06-21T15:39:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_DIS_AMCSOUSA.pdf: 667420 bytes, checksum: e925a31324cc210c824c1c5a1b4120a5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-23T12:18:01Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_DIS_AMCSOUSA.pdf: 667420 bytes, checksum: e925a31324cc210c824c1c5a1b4120a5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-23T12:18:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_DIS_AMCSOUSA.pdf: 667420 bytes, checksum: e925a31324cc210c824c1c5a1b4120a5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / This study makes a reading of critical studies of theory and literary criticism that José de Alencar wrote especially about for his work of fiction, with the following purposes: to demonstrate the technical-literary knowlegde of the Ceara writer on the construction of his fiction as a realization of a project of literary nationalism and examine the relationship between his writings about literature and his own work of literary creation. To this end we established a cut on the studies literary writings by Alencar, and was chosen the following texts corpus for this research: Cartas à Confederação dos Tamoios, Cartas de Erasmo, “Como e porque sou romancista”, “Bênção paterna” and “Carta ao Dr. Jaguaribe”. The analysis of this corpus allowed us to evaluate the literary knowlegde of the author and his nationalist ideas, as well as possible to prove the intimate relationship between the texts that make up the corpus and the work of creation alencariana alluded to. / Esta pesquisa efetua uma leitura de textos críticos que José de Alencar escreveu, sobretudo, em relação a sua obra de ficção, com os objetivos de demonstrar os conhecimentos técnico-literários do escritor cearense sobre a construção de sua obra ficcional como realização de um projeto de criação literária da nação e de analisar a relação desses escritos com sua própria obra de ficção literária. Para esse fim foi estabelecido um recorte no conjunto de textos críticos escritos por Alencar, tendo sido escolhidos os seguintes textos que se constituem como cartas abertas e paratextos: Cartas à Confederação dos Tamoios, Cartas de Erasmo, Como e porque sou romancista, “Bênção paterna”, “Carta ao Dr. Jaguaribe”. A análise desse corpus permitiu avaliar o conhecimento literário do autor e seu ideário nacionalista, assim como possibilitou comprovar a íntima relação existente entre os textos que compõem o corpus e a obra de criação alencariana.