Defining a home: shared history in contemporary literature

• Grant number: 11/19914-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: May 01, 2012
• End date: April 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Comparative Literature
• Principal Investigator: Giséle Manganelli Fernandes
• Grantee: Marcela de Araujo Pinto
• Supervisor: Neil ten Kortenaar
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Toronto (U of T), Canada

Abstract

The aim of this research, to be carried out at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, is to shape a concept of "shared history" in contemporary literature. I intend to examine such concept as part of the postmodern form of the historical novel, basing the analysis on a comparison between two novels: Toni Morrison's Paradise (1997) and Heloisa Maranhão's Rosa Maria Egipcíaca da Vera Cruz (1997). Metaphors, subverted chronotopes, problematic references to a real past, and hybridity processes between realms of knowledge constitute the definition of home in the in-between of "shared history." (AU)