Hair, resistance and resignification

Comparison between the short story “metamorphosis” and the movie “happiness by a wire”

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https://doi.org/10.48075/ri.v24i2.29095

Keywords:

Curly hair, Black woman, Culture

Abstract

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.

Author Biographies

Rubenil da Silva Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA)

Doutor em Letras – área de concentração em Estudos Literários (UFPA). Professor Adjunto I de Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa (UFMA). Professor permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras de Bacabal (PPGLB). Líder do Grupo de Pesquisa em Literatura, Negritude e Diversidade (GEPELIND). Vice-líder do Grupo de Pesquisa em Literatura, enunciação e cultura (LECULT).

Jaqueline Cunha Gonçalves

Graduada em Letras/ Português (UFMA); Mestranda em Letras, área de concentração – Literatura, linha de pesquisa – literatura, cultura e fronteiras do saber. Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras Bacabal (PPGLB), Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA), Centro de Ciências, Educação e Linguagens (CCEL); Bolsista Capes.

Ilustração da capa da Edição volume 24 número 2 de 2022, apresenta a logo da Revista Ideação acima e o título "Linguagens e Poéticas Contemporâneas Interculturais", logo abaixo temos a ilustração Pirambola do artista Luis Napoli.

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30-06-2022

How to Cite

DA SILVA OLIVEIRA, R.; CUNHA GONÇALVES, J. Hair, resistance and resignification: Comparison between the short story “metamorphosis” and the movie “happiness by a wire”. Ideação, [S. l.], v. 24, n. 2, p. 122–141, 2022. DOI: 10.48075/ri.v24i2.29095. Disponível em: https://saber.unioeste.br/index.php/ideacao/article/view/29095. Acesso em: 9 apr. 2025.

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2022): Dossier: Intercultural Contemporary Languages ​​and Poetics

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