“HOME IS A PLACE IN MIND” – THE GERMINAL IN THE VISITOR BY MAEVE BRENNAN

Sabrina Siqueira; Rosani Ketzer Umbach

doi:10.13102/cl.v26i2.11284

Authors

Sabrina Siqueira UFSM/ Pós-doutoranda em Estudos Literários
Rosani Ketzer Umbach UFSM - Professora titular da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), editora do periódico Literatura e Autoritarismo e bolsista de produtividade em pesquisa 1C do Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – CNPq.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13102/cl.v26i2.11284

Keywords:

Literatura irlandesa. Maeve Brennan. Personagens femininas.

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article is a close reading literary analysis of The Visitor by Maeve Brennan, considering the main subjects of the author's novel as embryonic for themes that she developed later, in more than forty short stories, mainly about female loneliness and the construction of an austere and mechanized feminine identity. This study considers Brennan's production inserted in the aesthetics of postmodernism, which explains the characteristics of gapped plots and fragmentary characters.

KEYWORDS: Irish Literature. Maeve Brennan. Feminine characters.

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