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Programação & Caderno de Resumosamong others. Voices and behaviors reflect the social status ofeach character. Besides, the beliefs, which are impregnated inthe innermost part of each man’s soul, suggest peculiar andindividualized personalities, characteristic of social stratification.Thus, the objective of this paper is to analyze the social voicesin O’Connor’s “Good Country People,” under the perspective ofBakhtin’s theory of heteroglossia.Contemporary Woman In Alice Munro’s And Márcia Carrano’sShort-StoriesNicea Helena Nogueira (CES-JF)This study approaches the representation of the feminine inthe collection of short-stories Porção de tintas by the writerMárcia Carrano from Minas Gerais Brazil and Runaway by theCanadian writer Alice Munro in the light of the basic tenets ofliterary criticism directed towards feminine authorship. In thetexts of the two writers, one sees a preoccupation with the needto attribute a metaphorical significance to objects and commonhappenings in the daily life of the contemporary woman. Themessuch as solitude, sexuality and love are, in different texts ofthese books, involved in an aura of mystery and suspense. Thenarrative structure of the short stories of the two writers presentsalso convergences in the portrayal of the characters and in thenarrative focus. All the classic Munro and Carrano touches arepresented in the short-stories: the women who are slightly ‘different’and cannot quite ‘fit in’ anywhere; the women who make odddecisions and then, either stoically or wilfully blindly, find away to live with them; men with their terrifying self absorptionand self interest and those others who are given to sudden crueltiesor lightning brutalities. The aim of this study is to offer a readingof Carrano and Munro which dilutes geographical frontiers andinstigates a reflection on the universal character of the femininecondition in contemporary time.140