I explore how the structure of Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible invites the reader to accept narrators’ authority in different ways depending on their temporal situatedness. I examine how a retrospective, extradiegetic perspective contrasts with limited, homodiegetic and intradiegeitc perspectives among female narrators. I analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, as well as how they shape one another. I discuss how the intersection of these voices develops the identity and enhances the authority of each narrator. Kingsolver employs polyvocality to bring female voices out of marginalization in order for readers to hear and respect their testimonies.

Trata-se de um estudo sobre a interpretação das formas simbólicas espaciais e das práticas culturais presentes em uma praça tradicional localizada no centro da metrópole carioca Largo da Carioca. Procura-se decodificar, na abordagem da Geografia Cultural, Antropologia Cultural e História, uma visão particular deste cenário carioca, através das camadas de densidade simbólica constituídas em temporalidades distintas e dos diversos mapas de significados existentes nas narrativas daqueles que experienciam cotidianamente esta praça. Uma parte da polivocalidade presente no local é revelada. O Largo, que já foi de Santo Antônio e hoje é denominado Largo da Carioca, configura-se, assim, como palco das inter-relações entre as formas materializadas na paisagem e as práticas sócio-culturais. Portanto, este estudo pretende contribuir, a partir da combinação de teorias e métodos, para um outro caminho de pesquisas em Geografia Cultural no cenário urbano. / This is a research about the interpretation of space symbolic forms and also cultural practices verified in a traditional square (or open area) placed in Downtown Rio de Janeiro known as Largo da Carioca. It is needed to decode a particular point of view of this carioca scenery, based on Cultural Geography, Cultural Anthropology and History, through layers of symbolic density formed in different historical moments, besides diverse maps of meanings present at narratives from those ones who experience day-by-day this square. Then, part of the polyvocality current in this location is revealed. Thus, the square, which was called Largo de Santo Antônio and nowadays is Largo da Carioca, is represented as a place of inter-relationships between materialized forms in the landscape and socio-cultural practices. Therefore, this study intends to contribute, through combining theory and methods, to another way to research in Cultural Geography in urban scenery.

Trata-se de um estudo sobre a interpretação das formas simbólicas espaciais e das práticas culturais presentes em uma praça tradicional localizada no centro da metrópole carioca Largo da Carioca. Procura-se decodificar, na abordagem da Geografia Cultural, Antropologia Cultural e História, uma visão particular deste cenário carioca, através das camadas de densidade simbólica constituídas em temporalidades distintas e dos diversos mapas de significados existentes nas narrativas daqueles que experienciam cotidianamente esta praça. Uma parte da polivocalidade presente no local é revelada. O Largo, que já foi de Santo Antônio e hoje é denominado Largo da Carioca, configura-se, assim, como palco das inter-relações entre as formas materializadas na paisagem e as práticas sócio-culturais. Portanto, este estudo pretende contribuir, a partir da combinação de teorias e métodos, para um outro caminho de pesquisas em Geografia Cultural no cenário urbano. / This is a research about the interpretation of space symbolic forms and also cultural practices verified in a traditional square (or open area) placed in Downtown Rio de Janeiro known as Largo da Carioca. It is needed to decode a particular point of view of this carioca scenery, based on Cultural Geography, Cultural Anthropology and History, through layers of symbolic density formed in different historical moments, besides diverse maps of meanings present at narratives from those ones who experience day-by-day this square. Then, part of the polyvocality current in this location is revealed. Thus, the square, which was called Largo de Santo Antônio and nowadays is Largo da Carioca, is represented as a place of inter-relationships between materialized forms in the landscape and socio-cultural practices. Therefore, this study intends to contribute, through combining theory and methods, to another way to research in Cultural Geography in urban scenery.

Through critical urban spatial intervention and close attention to multispecies relationality, this project report documents the designerly exploration of a ‘plats-specifik’ (place-specific) ontology of becoming through polyvocal authorship, sticking with the trouble of anthropocentric urban development and temporalities of change. ‘JAG ÄR DU’ is a triad composition of trellises that grow scarlet runner beans, giving an architectural frame for the beans to grow into a hybrid typography and co-authored speculative poetics. Two metres tall and one and a half meters wide, each letter is built with vestigial matters of the past and present. Placed in a newly regenerated meadow in the northern parts of central Växjö, the intervention invites curiosity, reflection and abundant meetings between diverse thought worlds, species and generations of inhabitants. As a ‘plats-specifik’ project, this work demonstrates ways to make collective, public, and critical connections to placeness; the thick, implicated and multisensorial. It is to intervene in capatriarchalonialist (capitalist, patriarchal and colonialist ideological) politics of urban space, and to offer an alternative imaginary to the ways we see ourselves participating in the performing and making of multispecies publics.