TEREZA ALBUES: NARRATIVES OF DISPLACEMENT, EXCLUSION, AND SURVIVAL
Literature by female authors; Tereza Albues; Displacement; Exclusion; Survival.
By articulating the voices that emerge from narratives interwoven with threads of memory, set in the Pantanal plains and in the metropolises of the United States, Tereza Albues draws from everyday life to highlight the human concerns and searches for a place and social standing, revealing the underside of humanity, its cruelties, ambitions, power, exploitation, and mistreatment. In this sense, we seek to demonstrate how Albues constructs, through fiction, narratives of resistance to patriarchal and capitalist social structures. In addition to social issues, we chose exile in its voluntary form, marking a writing with displacements reflected in the characters' wanderings. To locate Albues' writing, we conducted a broad examination of female-authored literature, focusing on the first writings by women in Mato Grosso, situating the writer Albues. To this end, the novels published by the writer are analyzed: Pedra Canga (2019), Chapada da Palma Roxa (2019), A Travessia dos Sempre Vivos (2019), O Berro do Lambem Nova York (2019), and A Dança do Jaguar (2019), under the theoretical framework of studies by Beauvoir (2016), Josef (1989), Hall (2011), Bauman (2005), Bhabha (1998), Schmidt (1995), Fantini (2003), Pang (1979), Said (2003), Teixeria (1979), among others. This thesis aims to demonstrate that the novels of Mato Grosso-born writer Tereza Albues, by highlighting characters who, seduced or deceived, in search of survival and freedom, reflect disturbing social issues of serious social relevance.