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DATE: 25/11/2022
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Online
TITLE:

Dystopia in 20th-century Brazilian Literature

KEY WORDS:

Dystopia. Brazilian Literature. 20th Century.

PAGES: 375
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Brasileira
SUMMARY:

Emerging in the 19th century, and popularized during the 20th century, mainly in works
of literature in English, the literary dystopia is a genre of writing that speculates about
the possibilities of alternative social constructions by imagining hellish worlds that are
constituted as the result of intentional political actions. Due to its great potential for
generating narrative conflicts, along with the constancy of wars, violence, and injustices
that marked the vast majority of world societies during the 20th century - and that
remain during these first two decades of the 21st century -, dystopia, dark sister of
utopia, encompasses a growing number of works that have generated a considerable
corpus of research in literary and cultural studies. In Brazilian literature, the first
dystopias emerged in the 20th century, and have been written and analyzed ever since.
Given the relevance and the aesthetic and social impact of this literary type, this thesis
aims to map the dystopia genre within an exclusive corpus of 20th-century Brazilian
literature, listing works that can be understood, within the perspectives of this genre,
according to certain formal and thematic criteria, as observed by a number of
researchers within the fruitful interdisciplinary field known as Utopian Studies. As a
result of this mapping, thirteen dystopian works were identified and analyzed. Thus, all
these works are addressed, however with a longer and more specific analytical focus on
three of them.: 3 Meses no Século 81 (1947), by Jerônymo Monteiro; Não Verás País
Nenhum (1981), by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão; and 9225: Ficção da Nova Era (1989),
by Regina Sylvia. Through the critical study of these works, which comprehends the
analysis of different themes, forms, images, and stylistic resources, it is possible to
investigate ways in which these dystopias fictionally represent negative aspects of
Brazilian society. I also observe the dialogues between Brazilian and English-language
dystopias. Therefore, the critical investigation directed to this selection, allows us to
understand the configurations of the dystopian genre in a particular way in Brazilian
literature in the 20th century, considering the social and literary elements that are unique
to Brazilian society, history, and culture.

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Interno - 2581726 - MARCUS VINICIUS MATIAS
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Externa à Instituição - DOLORES ARONOVICH AGUERO - UFC
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