DA PROIBIÇÃO À REVOLUÇÃO NA PRODUÇÃO LITERÁRIA ESCRITA POR MULHERES: O CASO DE CLARA E ALBA EM A CASA DOS ESPÍRITOS, DE ISABEL ALLENDE

Na obra A Casa dos Espíritos (2017[1982]), de Isabel Allende, destacam-se as mulheres da família, principalmente Clara e Alba, as responsáveis pela narração da história — a primeira por escreve-la em seus cadernos de anotar a vida e a segunda por resgatar essa escrita, após sua libertação do cárcere ditatorial, e narrá-la de modo a construir a obra. Nessa perspectiva, nosso objetivo é analisar o potencial revolucionário e de resistência da escrita das mulheres utilizando como corpus a obra de Allende. Para isso, através de teóricas como Joanna Russ (2018), Gerda Lerner 2019, Michelle Perrot (2019) e Virginia Woolf (2019), faremos um breve percurso acerca da proibição e dos empecilhos históricos impostos às mulheres afim de barrar ou dificultar suas expressões através da escrita, culminando nas estratégias utilizadas por elas, tal como a escrita de cartas e, como Clara, de diários/cadernos privados, como estratégia de registro e de voz. Concluímos que Allende, em sua obra, ilustra o poder revolucionário da produção escrita das mulheres.

Expanded Universes in Science Fiction: A Matter of Integration

Still lacking theoretical definitions, expanded universes are an artistic phenomenon often seen in science fiction literature as well as in narratives in other media. This text proposes a mechanism to explain how these universes come into being. For this, we analyze a series of cases such as Robert A. Heinlen’s Future History, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle, George R. R. Martin’s Thousand Worlds, Joanna Russ’ Whileaway, and transmedia examples such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Borrowing from Tamar Yacobi’s concept of mechanisms of integration – ways in which the reader makes sense of inconsistencies or oddities in a narrative – we argue that the explanation that two or more independent stories are set in a common universe is a hypothesis generated by the reader to integrate coincidences between these stories

Expanded Universes in Science Fiction: A Matter of Integration

Still lacking theoretical definitions, expanded universes are an artistic phenomenon often seen in science fiction literature as well as in narratives in other media. This text proposes a mechanism to explain how these universes come into being. For this, we analyze a series of cases such as Robert A. Heinlen’s Future History, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle, George R. R. Martin’s Thousand Worlds, Joanna Russ’ Whileaway, and transmedia examples such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Borrowing from Tamar Yacobi’s concept of mechanisms of integration – ways in which the reader makes sense of inconsistencies or oddities in a narrative – we argue that the explanation that two or more independent stories are set in a common universe is a hypothesis generated by the reader to integrate coincidences between these stories