O escritor no palco: representação e performance em três romances brasileiros contemporâneos

Villanua, Maria Dolores

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Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Villanua, Maria Dolores (creator); Vieira, Nelson (Director); Valente, Luiz (Reader); Sobral, Patricia (Reader); Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Sérgio Sant'Anna; Chico Buarque; João Gilberto Noll; metafiction; post-colonialism; Augusto Boal; Brazilian literature; Performance; Fiction; Postcolonialism; Sant'Anna, Sérgio; Buarque, Chico > 1944-; Noll, João Gilberto; Boal, Augusto
Extent:: viii, 275 p.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0CZ35GM

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Abstract:: This dissertation aims to analyze, mainly through a performance studies approach, socio-political and cultural issues in three Brazilian contemporary novels, featuring professional writers as narrators. The works studied are Budapeste by Chico Buarque, Um crime delicado by Sérgio Sant’Anna e Berkeley em Bellagio by João Gilberto Noll. Their narrators are also their protagonists: a ghost-writer, a theater critic, and a guest writer of two North-American academic institutions. In these texts, demystified representations of the literary profession may be observed as well as a questioning of self-representation and alternate subjectivities. The first chapter reviews the social and literary context of the novels before their actual presentation. Theoretical concepts related to performance, post-modernity, metafiction and post-colonialism are also discussed. In the chapters focusing on each of the works, theatrical imagery is used in order to describe the writer's positioning with respect to the unfolding of the narrative. Backstage, onstage or in the dressing room, the master of the written word observes (himself), transits and intervenes in his literary and social scenario. The “live” presence of the author/actor in a self-conscious game between reality and fiction is a metafictional strategy of performance art. Duplicity is, thus, manifested as both an apparent reproduction and a complex manifestation of diverse dualities. The experimental and unconventional nature of the performative genre allows the reformulation of individual and collective political tensions related to representation and authority. Simultaneously, it convokes and provokes the diverse subjects involved in the performance: the spectator, the actor and the author. These novels confirm the subversive role of art at a time when it would seem to have lost its transformative strength in view of the overwhelming power of the media, the market and mass culture. These narratives evidence a deep concern with the meaning of literature and writing while underlining a resistance to pre-determined values and hegemonic discourses. Their urban character and their performative perspective enable the elaboration of pertinent creative and dialogical views. This performative approach actively encourages the reader’s participation in the interpretation of the works.
Notes:: Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2012)

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Villanua, Maria Dolores, "O escritor no palco: representação e performance em três romances brasileiros contemporâneos" (2012). Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0CZ35GM

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