Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: RAISSA DA SILVA PEREIRA

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STUDENT : RAISSA DA SILVA PEREIRA
DATE: 11/09/2026
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:

Intersections between Regionalism and the Uncanny in the novel A cabeça do santo, by Socorro Acioli

KEY WORDS:

Regionalism; Uncanny; Space; Character; Contemporary Brazilian Literature

PAGES: 52
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Brasileira
SUMMARY:

Within the panorama of contemporary Brazilian literature, A cabeça do santo (2014), by writer Socorro Acioli, narrates the journey of a young man named Samuel, who travels to the fictional city of Candeia, in Ceará, to fulfill a promise and eventually takes refuge inside the head of an unfinished statue of Saint Anthony, where he hears the voices of women praying for marriage. Based on an analysis of the novel, this research investigates how Regionalism and the fictional insólito manifest themselves and intersect, with particular attention to the constitution of space and character. To this end, the study draws, among others, on Coutinho (1969) and Chiappini (1995) to present and discuss the Regionalist tendency; on Almeida (1999) and Lencioni (2014) to characterize the regionalist setting as inventive and essential to the narrative; and on Pozenato (2003), Vicentini (2007), and Arendt (2015) to address the constant renewal of the cultural boundaries that symbolically constitute the Northeastern region. The study also draws on García (2019) for the conceptualization of the fictional insólito; Todorov (2017) and Roas (2014) for their approaches to the fantastic, respectively, as a genre and as a mode; Cesarini (2006) to identify the nuances that compose this mode; and Covizzi (1978) and Chiampi (2006) to discuss Magical Realism, considering the association between the insólito tendency and a tendency commonly regarded as more realist. Furthermore, the research draws on Candido (2004) to address character and on Aguiar (2017) for the conception of space. The study identifies the manifestation and articulation of these tendencies in the work under analysis, thereby opening up other narrative possibilities.

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