A ressignificação da mulher negra Mariana e pai contra mãe à luz da metaficção historiográfica

Abstract

Tracing the paths of the relationship between history and literature is undoubtedly an arduous and profound work, but possible. These paths, for some contemporary scholars, comprise unique issues to be debated. We point out as one of them the participation of historiographical metafiction, which at first receives the concept of fiction that refers to fiction itself, taking possession of real world issues to problematize it, under the guidance of literary creation. In this sense, the inquiries that refer to the condition of women, especially black women, generate questions that have repercussions on studies on Literature and History. a society that has always established what the behavior of men and women would be like, thus studying black women and their relationship in literature is a topic under construction. Given this situation, this study aims to analyze the profile of the black woman in the short stories Mariana (1071) and Pai contra Mãe (1906) through the historiographical metafictional perspective. In the short stories, the author presents us with a remarkable moment in the history of Brazil: the period of slavery and characters that somehow ratify this context. In order to do so, the following aspects are analyzed in the narratives: the historical elements and their resumptions and the eccentric characters, such as women and blacks. The research, which is a bibliographic work, took as theoretical assumptions the contributions of Hutcheon (1991), Lucáks (2011), Lima (1960), Zolin (2009) and White (2000), among others. Through these theorists and considering the intertwining of Machado de Assis's historical and fictional discourse, as well as the malleability of the elocution provided by historiographical metafiction, in this dissertation we understand that the reading of these tales constitutes the possibility of reinterpreting history through the profile of the black woman.