Uma leitura da representação do feminino na ficção de Yvonne Vera

• Autor(a) principal: ARAÚJO, Cibele de Guadalupe Sousa
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/0013000006x2d
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2381
• topic: Literatura do Zimbábue; Representação do feminino; Yvonne Vera; 1.Vera, Yvonne - crítica einterpretação 2.Literatura africana (inglês) 3.Mulheres na literatura - Zimbábue 4.Direitos das mulheres - Zimbábue; Literature in Zimbabwe, female representation, Yvonne Vera; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

The aim of this research and of the dissertation from it is the analysis of the fictional work of Yvone Vera, a prominent writer from Zimbabwe. Incribed in the African literature written in English, her works are well known and studied internationally, and they have been translated into many idioms such as Spanish, French, Italian and German. However, this work is not very known in Brazil. Therefore, this study observe the author´s treatment of cultural, social, political and gender questions, in a period that comprehend almost a century of the Zimbabwean history, since the intensification of the colonizer occupation and the First Chimurenga (the liberation movement) until the period after the Second Chimurenga (the war for indepence), after 1980. The main focus of the dissertation is the study of the feminine representation in Vera s work, as it appear in her short-story collection Why Don t You Carve Other Animals? (1993), and in her novels Nehanda (1993), Without a Name (1994), Under the Tongue (1996), Butterfly Burning (1998), The Stone Virgins (2002): the construction of the feminine identity, the struggle for women´s emancipation, the position of women in the colonial society and in the fight for the liberation of the country from the colonial Power, as well as the difference introduced by the independence of the country in the lives of Zimbawean women.