Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaSociology and literature: a theoretical exercise about agency, ruptures and reproductions in niketche: a story of polygamy
This essay is a theoretical exercise that attempts to use a literary text as a window to access and analyze social dynamics and to think about agency in Practice Theory. To begin with, we briefly discuss the difference between a sociological approach of literature and literary criticism. Then, using...
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| description | This essay is a theoretical exercise that attempts to use a literary text as a window to access and analyze social dynamics and to think about agency in Practice Theory. To begin with, we briefly discuss the difference between a sociological approach of literature and literary criticism. Then, using the notion of Practice Theory by Ortner we analyze the literary work Niketche: a story of polygamy and discuss the journey of the main character, Rami, which oscillates between ruptures with and reproductions of the social role of Mozambican women. Even though Niketche is a work of fiction – or maybe precisely because it is fiction! – it is a doorway to understanding and discussing gender relations in Mozambique. |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO633002022-03-18T18:33:32Z Sociology and literature: a theoretical exercise about agency, ruptures and reproductions in niketche: a story of polygamy Sociologia e literatura: um exercício teórico sobre agência, rupturas e permanências a partir de Niketche - uma história de poligamia Silva, Jacqueline Carvalho da Literature Sociology Agency Ruptures Reproductions Literatura Sociologia Agência Rupturas Permanências This essay is a theoretical exercise that attempts to use a literary text as a window to access and analyze social dynamics and to think about agency in Practice Theory. To begin with, we briefly discuss the difference between a sociological approach of literature and literary criticism. Then, using the notion of Practice Theory by Ortner we analyze the literary work Niketche: a story of polygamy and discuss the journey of the main character, Rami, which oscillates between ruptures with and reproductions of the social role of Mozambican women. Even though Niketche is a work of fiction – or maybe precisely because it is fiction! – it is a doorway to understanding and discussing gender relations in Mozambique. Utilizar um texto literário como uma porta para acessar e pensar sobre as dinâmicas sociais no campo da agência é o exercício proposto neste artigo. Primeiro se discute brevemente os desafios da sociologia da literatura desde a demarcação do seu campo em relação a crítica literária aos limites e possibilidades da literatura como objeto de análise sociológica. Posteriormente, através da obra literária Niketche: uma história de poligamia se realiza um exercício teórico, utilizando a teoria da prática em Ortner (2007), para entender a trajetória da personagem principal, Rami, que oscila entre ruptura e aquiescência à situação subalterna feminina. Niketche nos abre uma porta para pensar sobre as relações de gênero em Moçambique, apesar de tratar-se de uma obra ficcional (talvez justamente por isso!). 2018-07-31 2022-03-18T18:33:32Z 2022-03-18T18:33:32Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/estudos/article/view/11019 10.52780/res.11019 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/63300 por https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/estudos/article/view/11019/7465 Copyright (c) 2018 Estudos de Sociologia application/pdf FCL-UNESP Laboratório Editorial Estudos de Sociologia; v. 23 n. 44 (2018): Dossiê: Sociologia e literatura nas diversas formas e fases da modernidade 1982-4718 1414-0144 |
| spellingShingle | Literature Sociology Agency Ruptures Reproductions Literatura Sociologia Agência Rupturas Permanências Silva, Jacqueline Carvalho da Sociology and literature: a theoretical exercise about agency, ruptures and reproductions in niketche: a story of polygamy |
| title | Sociology and literature: a theoretical exercise about agency, ruptures and reproductions in niketche: a story of polygamy |
| title_full | Sociology and literature: a theoretical exercise about agency, ruptures and reproductions in niketche: a story of polygamy |
| title_fullStr | Sociology and literature: a theoretical exercise about agency, ruptures and reproductions in niketche: a story of polygamy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sociology and literature: a theoretical exercise about agency, ruptures and reproductions in niketche: a story of polygamy |
| title_short | Sociology and literature: a theoretical exercise about agency, ruptures and reproductions in niketche: a story of polygamy |
| title_sort | sociology and literature: a theoretical exercise about agency, ruptures and reproductions in niketche: a story of polygamy |
| topic | Literature Sociology Agency Ruptures Reproductions Literatura Sociologia Agência Rupturas Permanências |
| url | https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/estudos/article/view/11019 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/63300 |