Quando a mulher tem voz : a narradora-personagem de Margarida La Rocque : a ilha dos demônios, de Dinah Silveira de Queiroz

• Autor(a) principal: Steffen, Ana Cristina
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/8469
• topic: Dinah Silveira de Queiroz; Margarida La Rocque: a Ilha dos Demônios; Teoria e Crítica Feminista; Identidade Narrativa; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

This work has as main objective to analyze the narrator-character of the novel Margarida La Rocque: a ilha dos demônios, published in 1949, by Dinah Silveira de Queiroz (São Paulo, 1911- Rio de Janeiro,1982). The author produced wide and diversified work – which transited from historical novel to scientific fiction – and acted intensely in the intellectual and cultural circles of her time. Furthermore, she had extensive production of chronicles for several press media. Nevertheless, Dinah is little read currently and her books are also little studied. The narratives of the writer, in general, are centered in feminine characters, and, in Margarida, this character shows herself a woman who seeks new possible paths for herself. This way, the novel is among those ones belonging to a transition phase in which the asymmetries of gender relations were beginning to be put under discussion. Thus, the theoretical foundation of this research consists largely of feminist theory and criticism; for this, Brazilian scholars such as Rita Schmidt, Constância Lima Duarte, Ruth Silviano Brandão have been privileged, among others. But authors such as Simone de Beauvoir, Elaine Showalter, Judith Butler, were also used, besides the study of Joanne Frye about what is one of the main questions of this work: the feminine narrator-character. Seeking to show how the identity that is constructed for the protagonist reveals a feminine character in disagreement with the stereotypes of woman in literature, it was also used the concept of narrative identity, by Paul Ricoeur. By aligning feminist theory and criticism to the postulates of the French philosopher, it is possible to perceive a narrative identity constructed in the temporality of the novel in which it is revealed a woman-subject character that assumes the course of her own story, inclusive because she narrates with her own voice. Even that the character has some limitations in her acting as an autonomous subject and carries, in a certain way, some characteristics of the stereotyped feminine characters, the reading of the novel indicates a protagonist in whom we recognize the element of transgression.