Alves, Maria da Penha CasadoOliveira, Mikaela Silva de2024-11-042024-11-042023-08-23OLIVEIRA, Mikaela Silva de. Toda distopia começa com uma faísca: as centelhas discursivas na construção da heroína distópica na trilogia Jogos Vorazes. Orientadora: Dra. Maria da Penha Casado Alves. 2023. 126f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Estudos da Linguagem) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2023.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/60502Dystopia is a discursive genre that, in opposition to an utopian ideal, portrays an oppressive society. Its history dates back to the 17th century, with works such as Thomas More's Utopia, which portrays an imaginary society based on equality and justice. In the 20th century, with the advent of totalitarian regimes and world wars, dystopia became popular as a form of warning about the danger of oppression and state control over society, represented by works such as George Orwell's 1984, which portrays societies controlled by the State, in which liberty and individuality are suppressed in the name of stability and security. Dystopia gained even more popularity in the 2000s, especially among young people, with works such as The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, portrayed as a youth dystopia taking place in an oppressive society called Panem where young people are selected to fight to the death in The Hunger Games. Katniss Everdeen, the main character, stands out as a strong and subversive feminine character that challenges the gender stereotype and leads a revolution against the oppressive Panem government. The importance of female protagonists in dystopian books is discussed in this research, as well as the role of literature on the construction of gender representations and youth in society. This research uses the discussions from the Bakhtin’s Circle on language and discursive genre to analyze how the subversion of the female character in The Hunger Games trilogy is built by the dialogue between different voices and how the contemporaneous works renew the dystopia genre. To address the concepts of dystopia and hero, this dissertation uses the concept of dystopia by Tom Moylan (2016) and the Hero’s Journey by Campbell (2007), in a comparison with the dystopian classic 1984, to analyze Katniss Everdeen character and highlight the importance of female hero representations and current themes in dystopian books. This intersection of fields is facilitated by the insertion of this research in the area of Applied Linguistics, interdisciplinary and hybrid (Moita Lopes, 2006), which opens ways for this analysis to also be based in the gender and sexuality studies of Heleieth Saffioti and Michele Perrot, and of culture and current affairs of Byung-Chul Han. Also, through the qualitative-interpretative perspective and the evidentiary paradigm of Carlo Ginzburg (1989), this research points to the subversion of the characterization and heroic journey of dystopian protagonists in the present day in relation to classic dystopias, bringing convergent elements that qualify them as dystopian but diverging positively by listing signs of hope, feminism, and active youth in youth dystopias with the protagonist Katniss.Acesso AbertoJogos Vorazes (Trilogia)DistopiaGêneros do discursoFemininomasterThesisCNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA