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Alice no espaço: feminismo e ficção científica: uma leitura do conto “The Women Men Don’t See”, de James Tiptree Jr./Alice Sheldon
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Esta dissertação pretende dar a conhecer uma escritora não traduzida nem publicada entre
nós, Alice Sheldon/ James Tiptree Jr., através da leitura do conto “The Women Men Don’t
See”, de uma posição de leitura feminista. Inicia-se com uma contextualização do
aparecimento da crítica literária feminista, nos anos setenta, seguida por uma breve definição
e perspetiva histórica da ficção científica, o género literário em que o conto se insere. Num
terceiro momento, apresenta-se um pequeno apontamento sobre a vida e a obra da autora,
Alice Sheldon, que publicou sob o pseudónimo masculino James Tiptree, Jr. A dissertação
termina com a leitura do conto, que permite abordar temas importantes para a crítica literária
e para o feminismo, como sejam os do género e da identidade, e os da (in)visibilidade das
mulheres escritoras e das mulheres em geral. Procurámos situar a escrita de James Tiptree,
Jr. no seu tempo (anos sessenta e setenta do século XX) e no género literário da ficção
científica, mas também procurámos mostrar a sua originalidade e a forma como algumas das
suas posições antecipam ideias posteriormente avançadas por outras pensadoras, em relação
ao espaço ocupado pelas mulheres. A utilização do pseudónimo masculino permite
problematizar a questão da (eventual) diferença na escrita dos homens e das mulheres, e
também questionar a nossa posição de leitores e a forma como os nossos preconceitos
influenciam as nossas leituras.
This dissertation aims to present a writer, untranslated and unpublished in Portugal, Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree, Jr., through the reading of one of her short stories, “The Women Men Don’t See”, from a feminist reading position. It begins with a contextualization of the emergence of feminist literary criticism, in the seventies, followed by a short definition and historical perspective of the science fiction genre, to which the story belongs. Next comes a brief note on the life and work of the author, Alice Sheldon, who published under the male pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. This dissertation ends with the reading of the story, that addresses important issues to literary criticism and to feminism, such as gender and identity, and the (in)visibility of women writers and women in general. We tried to position James Tiptree Jr.’s writing within her time (the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century) and within the science fiction genre, but we aimed to show her originality and the way some of her views anticipated the ideas of latter thinkers, concerning the space occupied by women. The use of the male pseudonym enables us to consider the question of the (eventual) difference between men and women’s writing and to take into account the ways our reading position and our preconceptions influence our readings.
This dissertation aims to present a writer, untranslated and unpublished in Portugal, Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree, Jr., through the reading of one of her short stories, “The Women Men Don’t See”, from a feminist reading position. It begins with a contextualization of the emergence of feminist literary criticism, in the seventies, followed by a short definition and historical perspective of the science fiction genre, to which the story belongs. Next comes a brief note on the life and work of the author, Alice Sheldon, who published under the male pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. This dissertation ends with the reading of the story, that addresses important issues to literary criticism and to feminism, such as gender and identity, and the (in)visibility of women writers and women in general. We tried to position James Tiptree Jr.’s writing within her time (the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century) and within the science fiction genre, but we aimed to show her originality and the way some of her views anticipated the ideas of latter thinkers, concerning the space occupied by women. The use of the male pseudonym enables us to consider the question of the (eventual) difference between men and women’s writing and to take into account the ways our reading position and our preconceptions influence our readings.
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Alice Sheldon, 1915-1987 James Tiptree Jr., pseud. Crítica literária Literatura feminista Feminismo Ficção científica Género Identidade Feminist literary criticism Feminism Science fiction Gender Identity
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Prata, Maria de Jesus Cristina Joana de Sousa - Alice no espaço [Em linha]: feminismo e ficção científica: uma leitura do conto “The Women Men Don’t See”, de James Tiptree Jr./Alice Sheldon. [S.l.]: [s.n.], 2023. 134 p.