Banca de DEFESA: GENILSON DE AZEVEDO FARIAS

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DISCENTE : GENILSON DE AZEVEDO FARIAS
DATA : 24/05/2019
HORA: 14:30
LOCAL: Auditório C do CCHLA
TÍTULO:

WITH SUGAR, WITH AFFECTION: FEMALE REPRESENTATIONS IN THE MEMORIAL WRITING OF MAGDALENA ANTUNES (1980-1959)

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

 Magdalena Antunes (1880-1959). Rio Grande do Norte. Oiteiro. Writing itself. Representations of women.

PÁGINAS: 291
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Sociologia
SUBÁREA: Outras Sociologias Específicas
RESUMO:

In the passage from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century, the region that progressively became known as the Northeast, began to lose economic and political visibility in the general context of Brazil. On the one hand, the Northeast was declining because of the low productivity of sugar, while the Southeast was due to industrialization. In order to remedy such problems, mills were introduced in order to modernize the production that was traditionally carried out through mills, which with their rudimentary methods no longer met the expectations of the international market. These transformations were felt, challenged and problematized by several intellectuals of the time who, in connection with this past of the engenhos in the Northeast, complained that the insertion of the mills in this scenario was acting in order to swallow territories, modifying old social relations, destroying even forms of lives for decades. The sense of finitude of this past linked to the world of the sugar cane aristocracy echoed in the writings of intellectuals such as Jose Lins do Rêgo, Gilberto Freyre, Mario Sette and Julio Bello whose works, especially novels and memories, were woven under the nostalgic look of those who wanted to perpetuate through writing their values and traditions. Linked to this movement, here stands out the North American writer Magdalena Antunes (1880-1959) who, having been the daughter of planters in the valley of Ceará-Mirim-RN, already in the position of owner of the properties she inherited from her family, saw its past fall into decay with the progressive fall of sugar production and insertion of the mills. In addition to having participated in the cultural life of her state through her collaboration with the press, Magdalena was also part of the intellectual group of Câmara Cascudo and Nilo Pereira, producing and publishing under her auspices Oiteiro: Memories of a Sinhá-Moçain 1958.This work has a memorialistic and autobiographical content where all the nostalgic sentiment of the above referenced intellectuals is also present, interspersing the account she made of her childhood, also saving from oblivion spaces, people and moments that were dear to her, something that is characteristic of writing itself as narratives that give vent to the self. The main objective of the present work is to observe some feminine representations that were constructed and were manifested from the life trajectory and writing that Magdalena made of herself in her Oiteiro. Visiting the past of the mills in Ceará-Mirim through his work, in addition to many other characters that are part of this patriarchal, aristocratic and slave-like scenario, I was attracted to the attention of women, including teachers, slaves, nuns and schoolgirls, all of them eighteenth-century writers who were part of the writer's life in her childhood and who, as she herself made clear, deserved to be eternalized in the narratives she made of her own history. So I ask: what are these representations capable of showing in relation to the spirit of an age and the female condition in this context? From a qualitative perspective, I take the writing developed by Magdalena as a central source, but, either to deal with her trajectory or to highlight the representations of women she designed, I chose to make the confrontation of the Oiteiro with other sources such as letters, photographs, interviews and literary works of autobiographical and memorialistic trait, mainly of Brazilian authors and authors. From the writing developed by Magdalena, I present an overview of the female situation in the Brazilian Northeast of the nineteenth century, making problematic the socio historical and cultural context of the time.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1149568 - ANA LAUDELINA FERREIRA GOMES
Interno - 6347248 - JOSE ANTONIO SPINELI LINDOZO
Externa à Instituição - KARLLA CHRISTINE ARAÚJO SOUZA - UERN
Externa à Instituição - MARIA DA CONCEIÇÃO CRISOSTOMO DE MEDEIROS GONÇALVES MATOS FLORES - NENHUMA
Externa à Instituição - TÂNIA ELIAS MAGNO DA SILVA - UFS