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Programação & Caderno de ResumosIn Macedo’s verse tale, which takes place in a small tropicalbay, there are three witches: the Nebulosa, queen of all witches,who once inhabited the area and who now lives in the bottomof the ocean; her protégée, the love-sick maiden known as Doidaand finally the maid’s mother, who pledged loyalty to the Nebulosa,becoming herself a witch. Macedo’s witches bring to mind anotherromantic witch, Percy B. Shelley’s witch of Atlas. Some pointsof contact unite two of Macedo’s witches and Shelley’s: they arefrom peripheral continents and of mixed blood. Macedo, however,drives his sorcerers deep in the lands of the New World, whileShelley gives his a royal Greek father. Some basic traits of thewitch motif will be identified and it will be argued about thedifferent treatments given to it by those two authors in Brazilianand English Romanticisms, with emphasis for Macedo’s recreationof the motif in a tropical, catholic country, marked by indigenousand African influences.Keywords: witch; Joaquim Manuel de Macedo; Percy B. Shelley,Romanticism; gothic.From the Monstrous to the Colored love:Questions about Sexuality and Identity inthe Films The Color Purple and MonsterRaphael Albuquerque de Boer (UFSC)This study aims at analyzing, in light of gender and feministtheories, the representations of identity and sexuality of thecharacters Celie and Aileen, respectively from the movies “TheColor Purple” (1985), directed by Steven Spielberg and “Monster”(2003), directed by Patty Jenkins. In the analysis are also consideredthe homoerotic relationships between the characters Celie andShug as well as Aileen and her partner Selby. These associationsare investigated, in selected scenes from the films, to show howcinematic elements (editing, lighting, setting, colors, cameramovements, angles, props, etc.) are configured in order to portraybiased lesbian associations. The conclusions show how the femalebonding between these women seem to have an ambiguous markin the sense that lesbian desire is explained as a causal effectof male mistreatment. Although in both films lesbian relationshipscannot be seen as the main topic, they play a leading part in thedevelopment of both stories. The movie “The Color Purple” portrays296