Hair, resistance and resignification: Comparison between the short story “metamorphosis” and the movie “happiness by a wire”
This article aims to compare the construction of the main characters in the short story “Metamorfose” (2016), by Cristiane Sobral and in the film “Happiness by a wire” produced by Tracey Bing, Jared Leboff, Marc Platt and Sanaa Lathan. The methodology of the work is qualitative and bibliographical i...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE) |
| Repository: | Ideação (Foz do Iguaçu. Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.e-revista.unioeste.br:article/29095 |
| Online Access: | https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/ideacao/article/view/29095 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Cabelo crespo Mulher negra Cultura Curly hair Black woman Culture |
| Summary: | This article aims to compare the construction of the main characters in the short story “Metamorfose” (2016), by Cristiane Sobral and in the film “Happiness by a wire” produced by Tracey Bing, Jared Leboff, Marc Platt and Sanaa Lathan. The methodology of the work is qualitative and bibliographical in nature, as it seeks to analyze the construction of black characters, from their hair, in the selected short story and film, in which it is essential to read texts dealing with comparative Literature (CARVALHAL, 2016; NITRINI , 1996; CROCE, 2011) and social oppression about curly hair (GOMES, 2002; FERREIRA; PINTO, 2014). From the analysis, we realized that the character Socorro present in the short story and Violet presented in the film, are close in several aspects, especially regarding the treatment they have with their hair. Furthermore, we concluded that the characters Socorro and Violet represent many black women who they grow up hearing that their bodies are inferior just because they are black and that their biological characteristics must be hidden so that they can be based on the historically established ideal of white beauty. |
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