Banca de DEFESA: MARY MARCIA BORBA RASPOR

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MARY MARCIA BORBA RASPOR
DATE: 28/11/2025
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Virtual
TITLE:

THE FEMININE IN CLARICE LISPECTOR’S WRITING

KEY WORDS:

Feminine writing; Clarice Lispector; Hélène Cixous; Maria Lúcia Castello Branco; Subjectivity; Language.

PAGES: 101
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates the feminine dimension of writing in Clarice Lispector’s work in light of the theories of Hélène Cixous and Maria Lúcia Castello Branco, understanding Lispector’s language as a space of subjectivity, sensoriality, and rupture with traditional narrative conventions. Grounded in Cixous’s concept of écriture féminine, the research examines how the Brazilian author inscribes the body, desire, and the unconscious into the text, producing a writing that subverts patriarchal logic and opens itself to the unspeakable and the fragmentary. The dialogue with Castello Branco deepens this reflection by conceiving feminine writing as a space of jouissance, absence, and impossibility — where word becomes body and body becomes language. Through a critical-reflective analysis of the short stories “Love,” “The Imitation of the Rose,” and “Family Ties,” the study highlights how Lispector constructs a poetics that values sound, rhythm, and the materiality of language, approaching both poetic experience and orality. Thus, the dissertation demonstrates that, in Lispector, writing becomes an act of invention and resistance: a way of existing in the interval between being and saying, where the feminine emerges as a creative, aesthetic, and political force.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - BRUNA FONTES FERRAZ
Externa ao Programa - CLEIDE MARIA DE OLIVEIRA LOVON CANCHUMANI
Presidente - ERICK GONTIJO COSTA