Tessituras despatriarcais na contística de Kate Chopin e de Marina Colasanti

• Autor(a) principal: Sierakowski, Ana Paula de Castro
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do UNIOESTE
• Texto Completo: http://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/4786
• topic: Despatriarcalização; Decolonialidade; María Galindo; Kate Chopin; Marina Colasanti; Despatriarcalización; Decolonialidad; Depatriarchalization; Decoloniality; CIENCIAS HUMANAS

This thesis started from reflections on the theory of depatriarchalization, by María Galindo, in the works of Kate Chopin and Marina Colasanti, focusing on the ways in which the female characters of their short stories found to subvert the patriarchal structures that were among them. I defended the thesis that decolonialization could be understood as depatriarchalization, that is, according to Du Plessis (1985), if women can be considered as a metaphor of the colony, the decolonial thinking is related to a sense that Chopin and Colasanti’s writings could be considered as a practice of decolonializing, that is, depatriarchalizing. During the research on the theme, I came up with some questions that stood out as a guide to this research: which are the features in the writers’ works that represent (or not) the depatriarchal thinking in their specific contexts? How do they interconnect? In order to find answers to these problematizations, I aimed at revisiting and analyzing, through compared literature, short stories by Kate Chopin and Marina Colasanti, in a depatriarchal perspective. As specific goals, I defined: through the metaphorical axes of the whore, the indian and the lesbian, stated by Galindo as the axes of patriarchy, I analyzed how the characters of the short stories subverted the meaning contained in these axes, in order to show depatriarchalization; 2) considering that colonialism and patriarchalism may have a different connotation in the USA and in Brazil, I sought, simultaneously the analysis, to reflect on the depatriarchal thinking in the works of the writers from the elements which connected or diverged them. In this sense, I investigated how, in the literary text, the notion of depatriarchalization was built in the choices of the characters who are set in different contexts and time. In order to achieve the proposed goals, I based this research mainly on the theoretical assumptions of depatriarchalization (GALINDO), decolonial studies (MIGNOLO; QUIJANO) and on decolonial feminism (LUGONES; CURIEL). It was, therefore, a critical analytical research, guided on compared literature methodology, that intended to analyze short stories set on different periods of Chopin and Colasanti’s works. Data collection was possible through bibliographic research. As a result of this process of investigation, from the literary analysis based on Galindo’s metaphorical axes, I could conclude that Chopin and Colasanti’s short stories express, through the construction of the characters, the plot, the setting, the thematic and aesthetic development, a subversion of the concepts of whore, indian and lesbian, by bringing a resignification to the terms, in order to express depatriarchalization through literature. Thus, it was possible to understand that depatriarchalization is a process for cultural decolonization and thinking, which can only be effective with women’s freedom.