O que é um lar? Revisão do conceito histórico de nação em Paradise (1997), de Toni Morrison, e em Rosa Maria Egipcíaca da Vera Cruz (1997), de Heloisa Maranhão

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Marcela de Araujo [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Morrison, Toni 1931 Crítica e interpretação; Literatura moderna - Sec. XX - séc XX; Literatura comparada - Inglês e português; Literatura comparada - Português e inglês
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/127568; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/27-08-2015/000844275.pdf

The comparison between Toni Morrison's Paradise (1997) and Heloisa Maranhão's Rosa Maria Egipcíaca da Vera Cruz (1997) shows how these two novels create metaphorical images of home as a way of revising the official history of national formation. By constructing subverted chronotopes, both novels recreate inner lives in inclusive homes, presenting spaces that revise external characteristics associated with national identities. The shared history of inner lives forms the ground for marginalized characters to participate in society, making it possible for these characters' lives to be registered in the broader panorama of historical events in the United States and in Brazil. By subverting official history, historical novels reformulate our knowledge about the past and the present, reformulating social identities determined by historical characteristics.