Transgression in Carson McCullers The Ballad of the Sad Café

• Autor(a) principal: Silva Junior, Valdemir Pinto da
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/6521
• topic: Transgression; Gothic; Feminine; South of the EUA; Body; Transgressão; Gótico; Feminino; Sul dos EUA; Corpo; McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. The ballad of the sad café; Miss Amelia Evans (Personagem fictício); Análise do discurso literário; Grotesco na literatura; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS

This work has as its main objective to analyze the novella The Ballad of the Sad Café, published in 1951, by the North American writer Carson McCullers, who approached controversial subjects such as sexuality, social roles and their many times concomitant transgressions. In such discussion the presence of elements of the Gothic, the Grotesque and other literary elements will be analyzed as they prove to be efficient when dealing with the subversion of patriarchal ideals that are socially constructed. As crucial points of this work, a parallel between the Victorian society and the society of the North American South of the first half of XX century will be established, and I will also give special attention to the protagonist Miss Amelia Evans, showing how she defies the traditional gothic heroine model