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Les littératures caribéennes et océano-indiennes des dernières décennies ont mis en lumière, par le trajet poétique, l’ambivalence inhérente à la circonscription de la réalité géographique insulaire qui permet d’accéder à la conscience îlienne. L’insularité s’impose alors comme le motif contenant le lancinement géographique mais également mémoriel. Lieu duquel surgit l’imaginaire, l’île est instaurée en tant que terreau commun des textes de Patrick Chamoiseau, Ananda Devi, V. S. Naipaul qui, à travers le déploiement poétique, exhibent le tiraillement de l’ancrage et de la fuite, de l’enfermement et de l’ouverture. Ainsi, dans une approche diachronique, le dessein est de saisir l’inscription de cet élément fondateur de la poésie et de sa praxis afin d’entendre le dépassement initié par ces poétiques de la Mondialité, concept-clé de la philosophie poétique d’Édouard Glissant. L’édifice de Glissant irrigue, en effet, les textes, tantôt dans la résonance avec l’oeuvre de Naipaul, tantôt par le legs perceptible dans celles de Chamoiseau et de Devi. La poétique de la Relation constitue alors l’arsenal exégétique qui permet d’accéder aux propositions de contemporanéité des auteurs. Le traitement de la malemort, la fondation de l’ouvrage total, la praxis poétique de la monstruosité désaliénant le corps protéiforme, sont alors les imprévisibles générés. La création tend ainsi à s’affranchir des catégorisations et assignations, car elle est un écho au mouvement du monde. / The Caribbean and Indian Ocean literatures of the last few decades has brought to light, through its poetic journey, the inherent ambivalence of the circumscription of island geographical reality, which allows access to the island consciousness. Insularity appears as the metaphor of a chronic pain caused by the torn between geographical and memory issues. The island, the place from which the imaginary emerges, is established as a common breeding ground for the texts of Patrick Chamoiseau, Ananda Devi and V. S. Naipaul who, through their poetic process, show the conflict of anchoring and escape, of confinement and openness. Thus in a diachronic approach, the aim is to grasp the inscription of this founding element of poetry and its praxis in order to hear the overtake initiated by these poetics of Mondialité, a key concept of Edouard Glissant's poetic philosophy. Glissant’s work echoes with Naipaul’s writing, as they are contemporaries, while Chamoiseau and Devi have inherited of Glissant’s poetic and philosophical thought. Then, the poetics of the Relation constitutes the exegetical arsenal that allows access to the authors'propositions of contemporaneity. The description of the malemort, the creating process of a memorial masterpiece, the poetic praxis of the monstrosity which release the body (physical, social, and literature), are the « unpredictable » generated. Creation thus tends to free itself from categorizations and assignments, because it is an echo of the movement of the world.

This paper attempts to analyze Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, its structure, multiple dimensions and characters through the lens of postcolonialism, separately from the infamous controversy. The thesis consists of three chapters which primarily deal with the themes of dehumanization, migration, exile, cultural contamination and possession (both literal and imaginary) of the territory through bodies. In addition to Rushdie's novel which lies in the core of this thesis, this paper also introduces a number of other literary texts and one film, all belonging to the authors coming from different backgrounds though curiously repeating and overlapping some of the notions when it comes to the portrayal of the migrants. Whereas the introduction of the thesis could be regarded as general, giving a necessary background to the reading of The Satanic Verses and outlining the methodology, the conclusion concerns not so much the repetition of what the chapters investigate, but rather draws the final line, discusses and interprets what the characters as well as entire narrative had arrived to. Whereas "the migrant can do without the journey altogether; it's no more than a necessary evil; the point is to arrive",1 Rushdie's novel seems to continuously enable movement rather than fixity. 1Salman Rushdie, The...

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gerson Lourenco da Silva.pdf: 745882 bytes, checksum: a6e015271854d73d4abf337671a2c7c6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-22 / This research analyzes some poems of the work Seven-headed Monster and Other Fantastic Beings (Bicho de Sete Cabeças e Outros Seres Fantásticos), by the Brazilian poet Eucanaã Ferraz. The main question is to verify the presence of game features in the infantile poetry, taking into consideration the postulates defended by Huizinga, especially with regard to the role of the game in the poetic process. Games, as well as poetry, involve the faculty of invention, creation, competition, imagination, tension and seriousness. The poem is built by elements that attract and repel each other, and it is in these inconstancies that the beauty of poetry is: the tension and distension. We sought to understand how the process of construction and deconstruction of the monstrosity occurs in some eucanaanian poems through the poetic game. The theoretical support of the research has relied primarily on studies of poetic language and its specificities, as well as critical studies about children's literature in authors such as: Nelly Novaes Coelho, Decio Pignatari, Octavio Paz, Ezra Pound, Paul Valery and others. For the purpose of contextualization, of the infantile poetry in Brazil, a brief historical view was prepared from its inception to present day. The eighteen selected poems were divided and analyzed into two groups, organized from two nuclear axes: one that turns to the binary-various movement inscribed by the conjugation, in the poems, of two beings into one and, another that focuses on the reconstruction of monsters, giants and legendary creatures, commonly associated to horror, through softness and lightness. Ferraz shows, in his poetic creation, especially in the book Seven-headed Monster and Other Fantastic Beings, a series of legendary, mythological and folkloric references of the universal culture, making the distant near, the strange familiar, the heavy light, rudeness beautiful, harmonizing beings or things of different universes. It is the antithetical game of the binary-various , in a hybrid dimension of attraction and repulsion, which becomes present in the analyzed poems / O presente trabalho analisa alguns poemas da obra Bicho de Sete Cabeças e Outros Seres Fantásticos, do poeta brasileiro Eucanaã Ferraz. A questão norteadora é constatar a presença de características do jogo na poesia infantil, considerando-se, para tanto, os postulados defendidos por Huizinga, sobretudo no que se refere à função do jogo no fazer poético. O jogo, assim como a poesia, envolvem a faculdade de invenção, criação, competição, imaginação, tensão e seriedade. O poema se constrói por elementos que se atraem e outros que se repelem, e é nessas inconstâncias que está a beleza da poesia: a tensão e a distensão. Buscou-se compreender como ocorre o processo de construção e desconstrução da monstruosidade em alguns poemas eucanaanianos, por meio do jogo poético. O suporte teórico da pesquisa apoiou-se, basicamente, em estudos relativos à linguagem poética e suas especificidades, além de estudos críticos acerca da literatura infantil, em autores como: Nelly Novaes Coelho, Décio Pignatari, Octavio Paz, Ezra Pound, Paul Valéry e outros. Para fins de contextualização da poesia infantil no Brasil, foi elaborado um breve panorama histórico, desde seu início até os dias atuais. Os dezoito poemas selecionados foram divididos e analisados em dois grupos organizados a partir de dois eixos nucleares: um que se volta para o movimento binário-vário inscrito pela conjugação, nos poemas, de dois seres em um, e outro que focaliza a reconstrução de monstros, gigantes e seres lendários, comumente associados ao horror, por meio da suavidade e leveza. Ferraz apresenta, em sua criação poética, especialmente no livro Bicho de sete cabeças e outros seres fantásticos, uma série de referências lendárias, mitológicas e folclóricas da cultura universal, tornando próximo o distante, familiar o estranho, leve o pesado, belo o rude, harmonizando seres ou coisas de universos distintos. É o jogo antitético do binário-vário , numa dimensão híbrida de atração e repulsão, que se presentifica nos poemas analisados

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This study offers insights into the motif of monstrous corporality in a transmedia environment, through the vampire and zombie characters. Different narratives of corporeal transformation surround us constantly. On one hand, discourses of self-improvement in late modernity (Giddens 1991/2008) and ‘makeover culture’ (Johansson, 2006; 2012; Miller, 2008; Weber, 2009) demand a ‘creation of self’ through change and development, often in relation to physical appearance and bodily traits. On the other hand, numerous narratives of monstrosity and bodily change through destruction are also evident. This study takes on this double focus on corporality, against the backdrop of a late modern mediascape that has enabled people to imagine lives and possibilities different from their own through electronic mediation (Appadurai, 1996). As narratives now move between media platforms, new dimensions are brought to the imaginary, as different platforms interact differently with audiences. The aim of the study is to examine monstrous corporality in popular culture both in relation to media texts and audience practices through analyzes of representation, consumption and performance. The study examines medial and corporeal transformation through: concrete bodily change (the monstrous body), shifts between media platforms (transmedia) as well as the transmission of affect between media material and viewer (embodied spectatorship). These dimensions are explored in four empirical chapters, which examine two television series (True Blood and The Walking Dead) through textual analyses, the promotion of these series, audience participation (in online fora) and also participatory practices (Live action role play and zombie walks) through focus group interviews. The results indicate that the theme of monstrous corporeal change in TB and TWD reflects corporeal change in late modernity in several ways. Both transformations are focused on ‘before’ and ‘after’ and change of the monstrous body is connected to particular traits or parts of the body, which are also prominent in makeover culture narratives, such as skin, teeth and weight (appetite). The televisual narrative offers representations of bodily interiors and bodily harm that affect the viewers in a physical way, through an embodied spectatorship. The analyses of transmedia environments connected to the series indicate that the promotion of the programs use dimensions that emphasize the corporeal address, by bridging the gap between diegetic and actual reality. This is done through media environments (posters, websites and the like), and by introducing diegetic elements as actual, tangible objects in the actual reality of potential viewers. The analyses of posts on televisionwithoutpity.com show that participants use forum discussions as strategies to prolong and widen the media experience, and share it with others. Interviews with larpers and participants in zombie walks indicate that practices that stage the monstrous, also function as deepened embodied narrative experiences. Performances such as larps and zombie walks are interpreted as both conscious acts, and as strategies to handle unconscious performative (Butler, 1991/2006) dimensions of late modernity. Taken together, the zombie and vampire embody the pressures, risks and paradoxes connected to late modern makeover culture, and the mediated form they are presented through, tie them closer to those who engage in narratives about them.

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This research aims to investigate the role of the strange in the fiction of the short story writer Antônio Carlos Viana from Sergipe in the written works O meio do mundo e outros contos (1999), Aberto está o inferno (2004) and Cine privê (2009). These collections bring a set of strange beings to the family and the patriarchal society. The stranger in the fiction of Viana unbalances the rigorous standards of absolute truth and challenges the dead posture that leads people to live by the roots of a molded patriarchal system that, while outdated, is still adjusting behaviors. As theoretical and methodological subsidies, we used reflections of gender, body, sexuality and monstrosity studies. We go from the concept of strange as the one who has no definitions, rethinks the power and poisons the set standards, proposed by Zygmunt Bauman, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida; as the one who challenges and destabilizes the rules laid down as Guacira Louro, Elodia Xavier and Elizabeth Grosz, and finally as a metaphor of evil, proposed by Luiz Nazario, Jerome Cohen and Julio Jeha. We divide this essay into three chapters: in the first, Corpos marcados, we do a study of the strange of gender and analyze the stories O amor de Isa e Nane , Maria filha de Maria from the work Cine privê and Doutora Eva from Aberto está o inferno; the second, Do corpo à sexualidade, we rethink the no place of people that are broken down by sexual orientation and analyze the stories Eliazar, Eliazar , from Cine privê, Os mestres , Jardins suspensos and Meu tio tão só from O meio do mundo e outros contos; in the third, Monstruosidade nos corpos, we investigate the short stories Nadinha , Aos domingos from O meio do mundo e outros contos e Lofote e sua mãe from Aberto está o inferno. Of possession of such fictional material and theorical contributions, we seek to establish dialogue between the literary and social discourses and propose a space for debate in which social issues may be validated in the space of irreverent literary aesthetics. / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo central investigar as representações do corpo estranho na ficção do contista sergipano Antônio Carlos Viana nas obras O meio do mundo e outros contos (1999), Aberto está o inferno (2004) e Cine privê (2009). Essas coletâneas trazem um conjunto de seres estranhos para a família e para a sociedade patriarcal. O estranho na ficção de Viana desequilibra os rigorosos padrões de verdade absoluta e contesta a postura inoperante que leva pessoas a viverem moldadas pelas raízes de um sistema patriarcal que, embora ultrapassado, continua regulando comportamentos. Como subsídio teórico-metodológico, utilizamos reflexões dos estudos de gênero, do corpo, do duplo, da sexualidade e da monstruosidade. Partimos do conceito de corpo estranho como aquele que é familiar, não possui definições, repensa o poder e envenena os padrões estabelecidos, proposto por Zygmunt Bauman, Michel Foucault e Jacques Derrida; como aquele que contesta e desestabiliza as normas instituídas, conforme Guacira Louro, Elódia Xavier e Elizabeth Grosz e, por fim, como metáfora do mal, proposto por Luiz Nazário, Jerome Cohen e Julio Jeha. Dividimos esta dissertação em três capítulos: no primeiro, Corpos marcados, fazemos um estudo dos estranhos de gênero e analisamos os contos O amor de Isa e Nane , Maria filha de Maria da obra Cine privê e Doutora Eva de Aberto está o inferno; no segundo, Do corpo à sexualidade, repensamos o não lugar das pessoas que são discriminadas pela opção sexual e analisamos os contos Eliazar, Eliazar , de Cine privê, Os mestres , Jardins suspensos e Meu tio tão só de O meio do mundo e outros contos; no terceiro, Monstruosidade nos corpos, investigamos os contos Nadinha , Aos domingos de O meio do mundo e outros contos e Lofote e sua mãe de Aberto está o inferno. De posse desse material ficcional e a partir das contribuições teóricas, procuramos estabelecer diálogos entre os discursos literários e sociais e propor um espaço de debates em que as questões sociais possam ser validadas no irreverente espaço da estética literária.