Poéticas do silenciamento na literatura migrante do sul asiático escrita por mulheres

Abstract

This thesis addresses the aesthetic representations of silence in the works The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai (2007), Home Fire, by Kamila Shamsie (2017) and A Golden Age, by Tahmima Anam (2007). The writers classified by Ruvani Ranasina as South Asians make use of unsubmissive forms of silence, which converse with the cultural, historical, and social silencing springing from gender power relations and coloniality, while also creating strategies of resistance, confrontation and freedom. The first chapter will discuss how the idea of nation arises from the coloniality relations generated by colonization and how the power relations resulting from Coloniality of Power (QUIJANO) and Coloniality of Gender (LUGONES) generate situations of subalternity and violence arising from the imperial standardization based on modern abyssal logic (Sousa Santos) and how the alleged notion of a national amalgam determines who can or cannot be considered a citizen within a given territory. It will also present how the bodies of female protagonists in literary works are represented in light of the cultural shock caused by migration and by the ethnic, religious, social and cultural conflicts arising from geographic and epistemic displacement, which guide political questions about belonging and identity inside and outside the host nation. Chapter II will focus on the concept of Silence, using post-colonial thinkers and exploring the Aesthetics of Silence (SONTAG) as theoretical supportdescribe. The objective is to investigate the strategies that the authors of literary texts use to represent situations of violence and erasure of the bodies of the protagonists (or other members of their families). Such situations can generate trauma and extreme situations, which can lead to attempts at provoking silence through punishments as severe as death (extermination of the body and of the voice voice). On the other hand, subversive silences often figure in narratives, manifesting themselves through acts of silent confrontation and noise in stabilized discourses, actions that denote the reluctance to respond in the way expected by current social constructions. The third chapter consists of an essay about the novels, aiming to show how the authors uses the insubmissive silence and oppressive silence to signify the role of women in the historical background of partition