A construção do corpo de Evita no romance Santa Evita, de Tomás Eloy Martínez

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: González Urrego, Alejandro [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Martínez, Tomas Eloy 1934-2010 Santa Evita; Corpo humano; Literatura; Literatura - Historia e critica; Literature
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/136704; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/14-03-2016/000860183.pdf

This research proposes the analysis of Evita's body building in Tomás Eloy Martínez's novel, Santa Evita, focusing on the narrative decisive action based on the experiences retrieved from both, the alive and the embalmed Evita's body, present in this novel. The Argentine writer reconstructs it helped by different narrative elements, an alive body full of power, but also a dead body with an even greater power. Thus, the incidence of the body in Argentine history presented in the novel marks the social routes in body image of Evita to filter it through literature, the memories of witnesses who knew her at different times. The body construction is designed, in the novel, by the different narratives strategies that the author uses to achieve his purpose, therefore, the aim of this work is to research the different literary constructions made by the author, first exploring the construction of an alive body to get the construction of an embalmed body after a long time. It is analyzed the way in which the author constructs the different types of bodies by using multiple narrative strategies