Banca de DEFESA: JUAN DOS SANTOS SILVA

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STUDENT : JUAN DOS SANTOS SILVA
DATE: 14/02/2020
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: AUDITÓRIO D DO CCHLA
TITLE:

The journey of the unfinished hero in Young adult: dialogical clashes between youthful subjects and fictional characters against the Homo Sapiens Agenda

KEY WORDS:

Young adult. Simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda. Youth. Dialogism. Unfinalizable identity.

PAGES: 182
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Linguística Aplicada
SUMMARY:

This research intended to construct an analysis of the manifestation of unfinalizable identities in the Young Adult narratives (henceforth YA). It also seeks to understand how such literary representations reflect and refract the contemporary youth identities marked as liquid (BAUMAN, 2001) and transparent (HAN, 2017a). Therefore, based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of the Bakhtin Circle, we investigated these issues from the novel Simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda (2016), by the american author Becky Albertalli. In the narrative, Simon is a young gay man who interacts anonymously with another gay boy named Blue and from this interaction begin to materialize to his homoaffective identity and the generation of social clashes in a society that is not very receptive to homosexuality and others manifestations considered grotesque. The term Young Adult was used by the editorial market to define all the works that emerged after the launch of the Harry Potter series (1997) which focused on the youth audience. However, after the success of the novel The fault in our stars (2012), the term was changed to include novels of fiction in which its main characters are teenagers in the process of identity discovery, including reflections and developments that involve their bodies, their sexuality, their races and other language attributes that can be objects of social valuation. Located in Applied Linguistics, under its trans or undisciplinary perspective to address concrete discursive/social practices, this study adopts the Indicial Paradigm and the Dialogical Comparison, assuming a socio-historical-dialogical orientation. In this light, the research presents the analysis of three main aspects from the work under study: 1) the behavior of Young adult as a genre; 2) the journey of the protagonist Simon and the transformation of his identity along this heroic path; 3) the discursive traces that built a grotesque being in Simon's identity image. From this analysis, YA was perceived as a linguistic resource that anchors multiple representations of contemporary youth. In addition, the unfinished behavior of Simon's identity became evident, insofar as his condition as an incarnated and homo-affective subject does not allow him to end his heroic journey and always remains in the process of ideological and identity conflict. Finally, it is evident the repulsion to the different that is transformed into a monster to be punished or erased, a refraction that goes from the world of life to the world of culture.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1149420 - MARIA DA PENHA CASADO ALVES
Interna - 3654056 - JENNIFER SARAH COOPER
Externa à Instituição - ROXANE HELENA RODRIGUES ROJO - UNICAMP