Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: KLEBIO GALDINO DE ANDRADE JUNIOR

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : KLEBIO GALDINO DE ANDRADE JUNIOR
DATE: 01/09/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

"By that time, Evita was me", or the scripture of memories in Lidia Jorge's The Murmuring Coast

KEY WORDS:

memory; Portuguese Colonial War; Lídia Jorge;The Murmuring Coast.

PAGES: 132
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Outras Literaturas Vernáculas
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates the relationship between the memory of the portuguese colonial war and the narrative account presented by the narrator of The Murmuring Coast(1988), by Lídia Jorge, understanding it as both a means of recovering and denouncing a traumatic past. Whereas earlier fictional representations of war in portuguese literature were predominantly shaped by masculine, heroic, and epic perspectives, literary works produced in the aftermath of the Revolução dos Cravos (1974) portray the horrors of the colonial wars in Africa in a more explicit and critical manner. In this regard, it is through metafictional strategies (Hutcheon, 1991) that Jorge’s novel repeatedly stages attempts to critically recover the past, even though the narrator must confront the collapse inherent in the act of bearing witness (Seligmann-Silva, 2008). From the perspective of memory, this study aims to expand existing scholarship on the novel by examining not only how memory is formally configured as an analytical category, but also what this memory reveals when recovered through the narrator’s testimony. In doing so, Jorge constructs a representation of women’s experiences in wartime that, rather than focusing on the battlefield, draws attention to another form of violence: silent, yet equally devastating. The theoretical framework is based on the contributions of Ribeiro (2004) and Vecchi (2010) concerning female representations in the Portuguese Colonial War; Hutcheon (1991), Sales (2017), and White (1994) regarding historiographic metafiction and the subversion of historical discourse; and Gagnebin (2006), Ginzburg (2008), and Seligmann-Silva (2008) on memory and trauma as analytically operative concepts. The central hypothesis is that the memory reconstructed by the autodiegetic narrator functions as a means of subverting historiographical discourse, thereby enabling a critical reassessment of Portugal’s colonial past from a female perspective.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2312500 - MAURO DUNDER
Interno - 1082743 - PEDRO FERNANDES DE OLIVEIRA NETO
Externa à Instituição - RAQUEL TRENTIN OLIVEIRA - UFSM