Self Writings and the Autofiction in A Redoma de Vidro, by Sylvia Plath
Self Writing; Autofiction; Autobiography; Sylvia Plath.
The present dissertation proposes to investigate Sylvia Plath's novel A Redoma de Vidro (1963), from a reading from the perspective of autofiction, a term coined by the French writer Serge Doubrovsky in the 1970s to characterize writing practices of the self through the fiction model. Our proposal assumes that, once pointing out fictional events in the narrative as having autobiographical inspirations, Sylvia Plath resorted to a narrative model inherent to her literary productions, which consist in performances of herself as an author. Our objective is to examine excerpts in the novel that have an autobiographical character, basing the analysis from an autobiography of the author, as well as her diaries. Thus, although A Redoma de Vidro (1963) was published before the concept of autofiction, our hypothesis is that the novel presents narrative resources similar to those of an autobiographical text, but written in the fictional model. The research will be bibliographical and qualitative and will have as main theoretical assumptions texts by authors such as Bakhtin (2011a and 2011b), Lejeune (2008), Focault (2006 and 2001), Barthes (2004a and 2004b) and Doubrovsky (1970).