Arquiteturas da casa, poéticas do lar: Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison e Ursula K. Le Guin

Abstract

In this thesis, I argue that the writings penned by Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison and Ursula Le Guin — turning poetry and thought into neighbors — rescue, subvert and/or redesign normative structures of cultural intelligibility through the metaphorical complex of the “house”, simultaneously producing temporary and/or long-lasting homes as a subtext in this writing. Thus, the “house” will appear, in their texts, as a space that delimits the boundaries between belonging and staying on the margin – at times informing us about the structures that materialize this dwelling in the center of a nation, at others revealing to us the cracks and zones of indetermination that fiction is capable of opening up through the image of the house. That is, when we turn to literature as a fundamental mode of narrating other possibilities for the link between individuals cohabiting under the same roof, under the same space, at the same time, we discover a rich metaphorical complex prowling around the margins of this structure and, occasionally, revealing its inner fissures, as well as its leaks and glimpses through which we can see those who have been left out of it