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How Welty doesn't crusade

Title
How Welty doesn't crusade
Type
Article in International Scientific Journal
Year
2013
Authors
Castilho, Maria Teresa
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FOS: Humanities
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Resumo (PT): Tanto em entrevistas como no seu ensaio “Must the Novelist Crusade?”, Eudora Welty sulinha que a sua escrita é apolítica. Como a escritora declara em One Writer’s Beginnings, as suas histórias são visões baseadas não em eventos políticos mas, pelo contrário, naquilo que ela experienciava e conhecia de perto. Com uma multiplicidade temática sobretudo relacionada com personagens e vozes femininas, acrescida de uma inegável complexidade de sentidos, por um lado, e uma visão da diferença sulista, por outro, Welty escreve essencialmente sobre a vida, sobre seres humanos dominados pelas suas emoções, fantasias e relacionamentos. Escreve sobre homens e mulheres (em particular mulheres) herdeiros do passado sulista e construtores de um presente que, por seu lado, os condiciona a si mesmos e à sua história. E embora o conto “Where is the Voice Coming From?”, publicado em 1963, tenha sido visto como o texto ficcional onde Eudora Welty mudou de atitude e quebrou o silêncio sobre as questões raciais, é importante perceber que ela apenas aprofundou a sua abordagem do ser humano e da própria condição humana.
Abstract (EN): Eudora Welty firmly insists both in interviews and in her essay “Must the Novelist Crusade?” that her fiction is apolitical. As the writer states in One Writer’s Beginnings, her stories are visions built not by particular political events or aims but, instead, by what she closely experienced and knew. With a thematic multiplicity concerning predominantly female characters and voices, and an undeniable complexity of meanings on the one hand, and a vision of the Southern difference on the other, what Welty really writes about is life, about human beings dominated by their emotions, their fantasies and their relationships. She writes about men and women (and above all women) as heirs of a Southern past or builders of a present that, in turn, conditions themselves and their history. And although the short story “Where is the Voice Coming From?”, published in 1963, has been seen as the fictional text where Eudora Welty changed her attitude by breaking her silence on racial issues, it is important to understand that what she really did with it was to go deeper towards the human self and the human condition itself.
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