Da distopia ao monólogo interior: A construção das personagens femininas de O conto da aia de Margaret Atwood
Data
2023-08-25
Autores
Mendonça, Daniela de Souza 
Orientadores
Silvares, Lavinia
Tipo
Dissertação de mestrado
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Por meio de uma abordagem narratológica pós-clássica, esta dissertação analisa a
maneira como são construídas as personagens femininas da distopia critica feminista
O Conto da aia (2017), da escritora canadense Margaret Atwood, a partir do contexto
crítico-distópico em que elas estão inseridas. A fim de compreender os modos pelos
quais se constroem a subjetividade e o mundo interior das personagens, sobretudo
da protagonista Offred, foram utilizados como referencial teórico os estudos realizados
por Uri Margolin (2007) e Susan S. Lanser (1992) sobre a personagem literária e a
voz narrativa; Gregory Claeys (2017), M. Keith Booker (1994) e Tom Moylan (2000)
sobre o gênero distópico; Ildney Cavalcanti (1999), Raffaella Baccolini (1999) e
Jessica Norledge (2022) sobre a literatura distópica feminista, bem como os conceitos
apresentados por Robert Humphrey (1954), Alfredo Leme Coelho de Carvalho (2012)
e Alan Palmer (2004) sobre os romances de fluxo da consciência, monólogo interior
e a mente ficcional da personagem. Esta dissertação almeja compreender diferentes
aspectos relacionados à constituição das personagens e assim contribuir com os
estudos de uma obra de grande relevância na literatura contemporânea e de autoria
feminina.
Through a post-classical narratological approach, this dissertation analyzes the way in which female characters are constructed in The Handmaid's Tale (2017), by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, from the critical-dystopian context in which they are inserted. In order to understand how subjectivity and the inner world of the characters are constructed, mainly the protagonist Offred’s, we have relied on the studies carried out by Uri Margolin (2007) and Susan S. Lanser ( 1992) on the literary character and the narrative voice; by Gregory Claeys (2017), M. Keith Booker (1994) and Tom Moylan (2000) on the dystopian genre; by Ildney Cavalcanti (1999), Raffaella Baccolini (1999) and Jessica Norledge (2022) on feminist dystopian literature, as well as the concepts presented by Robert Humphrey (1954), Alfredo Leme Coelho de Carvalho (2012) and Alan Palmer (2004) about stream of consciousness novels, interior monologue and the fictional mind of the character. This dissertation aims to understand different aspects related to the constitution of the characters and thus contribute to the study of a work of great relevance in contemporary literature and of female authorship.
Through a post-classical narratological approach, this dissertation analyzes the way in which female characters are constructed in The Handmaid's Tale (2017), by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, from the critical-dystopian context in which they are inserted. In order to understand how subjectivity and the inner world of the characters are constructed, mainly the protagonist Offred’s, we have relied on the studies carried out by Uri Margolin (2007) and Susan S. Lanser ( 1992) on the literary character and the narrative voice; by Gregory Claeys (2017), M. Keith Booker (1994) and Tom Moylan (2000) on the dystopian genre; by Ildney Cavalcanti (1999), Raffaella Baccolini (1999) and Jessica Norledge (2022) on feminist dystopian literature, as well as the concepts presented by Robert Humphrey (1954), Alfredo Leme Coelho de Carvalho (2012) and Alan Palmer (2004) about stream of consciousness novels, interior monologue and the fictional mind of the character. This dissertation aims to understand different aspects related to the constitution of the characters and thus contribute to the study of a work of great relevance in contemporary literature and of female authorship.