Mrs. Woolf and Mrs. Morrison: das possibilidades de um modernismo inacabado e espiralar a partir de autorias femininas

Daniel Moreira Safadi

doi:10.12957/palimpsesto.2026.96167

Authors

Daniel Moreira Safadi Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9989-6374

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/palimpsesto.2026.96167

Keywords:

Virgínia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Modernism, Magic realism, Spiral time

Abstract

This article investigates the convergences between Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison in order to examine how women writers in contexts of oppression mobilize fiction as a space of epistemological and ontological resistance. By bringing Mrs. Brown, Judith Shakespeare, and Beloved into proximity, the text argues that both authors destabilize Western categories of truth, fact, and reality, producing narratives that operate through fracture, incompleteness, and the potency of the unrealized. In doing so, they construct literary worlds that challenge patriarchal and colonial paradigms, reinscribing feminine and racialized subjectivities within alternative temporalities and cosmologies, opening pathways for imagining other possible forms of existence.

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Author Biography

Daniel Moreira Safadi, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Mestrando com bolsa Capes em Literaturas de Língua Inglesa no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), onde se graduou em Letras após também ter se formado em História, na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Sua pesquisa tem foco no realismo mágico presente na obra de Toni Morrison como forma de escrita pós-colonial.

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