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Previous issue date: 2012-01-17 / The present dissertation concerns the study of two novels by the Indian writer Thrity Umrigar, If today be sweet (2007) and The weight of heaven (2009), which tell stories of migrations India-United States, United States-India, respectively. The study intends to analyse the representation created by Umrigar of the cultural shock caused by the encounter of two worlds the Orient and the West different in habits, values, behavior, points-of-view. Elements of post colonial Indian literature as well as theoretical referents related to culture and what surrounds it taken from Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Terry Eagleton and Zygmunt Bauman will be used to substantiate this work. / A presente disserta??o envolve o estudo de dois romances da autora indiana Thrity Umrigar, A do?ura do mundo (2007) e O tamanho do c?u (2009), que tratam de migra??es ?ndia-Estados Unidos, Estados Unidos-?ndia, respectivamente. O estudo pretende analisar a representa??o engendrada por Umrigar do choque cultural causado pelo encontro de dois mundos Oriente e Ocidente diferentes em costumes, valores, comportamentos, pontos-de-vista. Para fundamentar o trabalho, s?o considerados elementos da literatura p?s-colonial indiana, bem como os referenciais te?ricos, no tocante ? cultura e o que orbita ao seu redor, tomados de Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Terry Eagleton e Zygmunt Bauman.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:tede2.pucrs.br:tede/2040 |
| Date | 17 January 2012 |
| Creators | Soares, Aline de Mello |
| Contributors | Amodeo, Maria Tereza |
| Publisher | Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Letras, PUCRS, BR, Faculdade de Letras |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS, instname:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, instacron:PUC_RS |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 8447345070736321569, 500, 600, -2856882280194242995 |
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