Tú eres mujer: women characters' disempowerment and empowerment in Helena María Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus and The moths and other stories

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dc.creatorGeraldo Márcio Nobre Faria
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-28T12:21:43Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-09T01:33:41Z
dc.date.available2023-06-28T12:21:43Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-26
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1843/55453
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais
dc.rightsAcesso Aberto
dc.subjectViramontes, Helena María, 1954- – Under the Feet of Jesus – Crítica e interpretação
dc.subjectViramontes, Helena María, 1954- – Moths – Crítica e interpretação
dc.subjectViramontes, Helena María, 1954- – Growing – Crítica e interpretação
dc.subjectFicção americana – História e crítica
dc.subjectAdolescentes na literatura
dc.subjectImigrantes na literatura
dc.subjectMulheres na literatura
dc.subject.otherLatina literature
dc.subject.otherHelena María Viramontes
dc.subject.otherGirlhood
dc.subject.otherDisempowerment
dc.subject.otherLiteracy
dc.titleTú eres mujer: women characters' disempowerment and empowerment in Helena María Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus and The moths and other stories
dc.typeDissertação de mestrado
local.contributor.advisor1Gláucia Renate Gonçalves
local.contributor.advisor1Latteshttp://lattes.cnpq.br/9110447325925356
local.contributor.referee1José de Paiva dos Santos
local.contributor.referee1Priscila Campolina de Sá Campello
local.creator.Latteshttp://lattes.cnpq.br/0782114342309459
local.description.resumoChicana author Helena María Viramontes’s novel Under the Feet of Jesus depicts the trials and tribulations of a family of Mexican immigrants who works in the fields of California. The protagonist, Estrella, a 13-year-old girl, undergoes a rite of passage from girlhood to womanhood. The Moths and Other Stories has two short stories, “The Moths,” and “Growing,” whose protagonists are also teenagers and must cope with their growing up. The three girls must struggle in their daily routines with inequalities (race, gender, age, class, and ethnicity), patriarchal rules and beliefs, discrimination, and disenfranchisement that disempower them. I analyze how Viramontes denounces the oppression of these girls and suggests that they should struggle for their space in life and to make their voices heard. These girls must unlearn what they have learned from their environment to cope better with their lives. My hypothesis is that these oppressed girls can overcome their predicament through two relevant elements to achieve their autonomy: literacy (a process that encompasses both reading the world by appropriating their life stories and the word), and a broadened consciousness/an expanded worldview (my focus will be on Gloria Anzaldúa’s mestiza consciousness).
local.publisher.countryBrasil
local.publisher.departmentFALE - FACULDADE DE LETRAS
local.publisher.initialsUFMG
local.publisher.programPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Literários

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