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Landscape’s Revenge
Landscape, as it appears and is described throughout the works of Bernardo Carvalho and Robert Walser, provides an excellent—yet virtually unexplored—pathway to the authors’ literary projects. The landscape functions here as a synthetic and unifying figure that triggers, at first, through the analysis of its description per se, the main and most evident elements of the authors’ works. However, when sustained as a methodological figure beyond the scope of its own description, the landscape soon reveals a darker, far more fascinating and far less explored side of the authors’ oeuvres: a vengeful, seemingly defeatist resentment against the status quo, which gives way to the more laten...
Latin American Literature at the Millennium
Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces analyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid 2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by Roberto Bolaño, Valeria Luiselli, Luiz Ruffato, Bernardo Carvalho, João Gilberto Noll, and Wilson Bueno to reveal representations of the human experience that unsettle conventionally understood links between locality and geographical place. The book raises vital considerations for understanding the region’s transition into the twenty-first century, and for evaluating Latin American authors’ representations of everyday place and modes of belonging.
Antígonas
Antígonas: Writing from Latin America is the first book in the English language to approach classical reception through the study of one classical fragment as it circulates throughout Latin America. This interdisciplinary research engages comparative literature, Latin American studies, classical reception, history, feminist theory, political philosophy, and theatre history. Moira Fradinger tracks the ways in which, since the early nineteenth century, fragments of Antigone's myth and tragedy have been persistently cannibalized and ruminated throughout South and Central America and the Caribbean, quilted to local dramatic forms, revealing an archive of political thought about Latin America's ...
Queer Ancient Ways
Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources. In this radically unconventional work, Zairong Xiang investigates scholarly receptions of mythological figures in Babylonian and Nahua creation myths, exposing the ways they have consistently been gendered as feminine in a manner that is not supported, and in some cases actively discouraged, by the texts themselves. An exercise in decolonial learning-to-learn from non-Western and non-modern cosmologies, Xiang's work uncovers a rich queer imaginary that had been all-but-lost to modern thought, in the process criti...
A festa de um homem só
A China é aqui. Em 'A festa de um homem só', Lao Ma nos oferece uma série de breves relatos que capturam, nos pequenos detalhes do cotidiano, uma China ao mesmo tempo estranha e familiar. Combinando a leveza do humor com o absurdo dos meandros políticos chineses, Lao Ma nos conduz, de conto em conto, através da história recente de um país que está outra vez ocupando uma posição de destaque no imaginário global. Segundo o próprio autor, são narrações belas, tristes, perspicazes e humorísticas que não pertencem somente ao povo chinês, mas sim a qualquer leitor e a qualquer povo que possa se sentir identificado e tocado por elas. O leitor reconhecerá nesses contos a impotência e a raiva provocadas pela corrupção endêmica, a generosidade de vizinhos, o labirinto do funcionalismo público, a mesquinharia de pequenos funcionários, o prazer de uma boa refeição, o silêncio entre amigos, a claustrofobia de um ônibus lotado às seis da tarde e a melancolia de tempos passados. 'A festa de um homem só' é, ao mesmo tempo, uma aula de história e um exemplo do prazer da leitura.
Experiencing Ethics with Sterne and Musil
Experiencing ethics not only refers to being confronted with a situation in which one must choose a course of action; it also makes reference to giving a narrative account of the circumstances and chain of events leading to such crossroads. Between both there is a chasm, a space of indeterminacy into which R. Musil and L. Sterne delve with aesthetic means. Their poetics move in opposite directions, but by following them to their last critical consequences this study reveals a kindred ethical stance. This interpretation sheds light on the ethics revolving around character construction by examining the constraints thwarting any attempt to complete a biographical account or convey a protagonist that led his or her life. Neither Musil nor Sterne posit a narrative agenda that could reach a last chapter or lead to a groundwork determining their ethics. A closer look into their tight-knit prose reveals that both rely on the narrating, on a skill that must be incessantly cultivated through a digressive or essayistic style. Equipped with a vast theoretical repertoire, this approach makes a strong case for a new constellation in comparative literature.
A criação da memória: rastros autobiográficos na literatura portuguesa
A pertinência das discussões acerca da impossibilidade de um texto declaradamente autobiográfico desramificar-se por completo dos constructos literários, seja na recuperação de uma memória viciada pelo imaginar, seja na configuração na diegese de um outro.
Figuren des Versagens
Merkur-Preis 2021 Die komparatistische Studie untersucht die Vorstellung des Versagens als eine Diskurs- und Denkgröße, die sich in westlichen kapitalistischen Gesellschaften erst in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts herauszubilden beginnt. Das ‚Versagen‘ hat seinen Ursprung im Feld der Technowissenschaften, greift um 1900 auf die Humanwissenschaften über und wird schließlich in Disziplinen wie der Psychoanalyse oder der Pädagogik mit der Dimension eines biographischen Fortschreitens verwoben. Das Buch zeigt anhand von Lektüren von Melville, Flaubert, Svevo und Kafka, wie die Kategorie des Versagens etwa zeitgleich auch in die Literatur einsinkt und dort sowohl gefestigt als...
Begehrenswert
Begehren und Wert erscheinen auf den ersten Blick als Gegensätze. Während Ersteres auf das Persönliche und Intime abzielt, beschreibt Letzteres die abstrakte Beurteilung. Doch der Gegensatz wird brüchig, sobald wir im Begehren das beständige Auf- und Abwerten anderer entdecken, und im Wert das unablässige, affektgeladene Spiel der Bewertungen. Jule Govrins fulminanter Essay Begehrenswert fragt danach, wie Begehren die wirtschaftlichen Wertordnungen durchdringt und sich ökonomische Bewertungsmuster feinstofflich in soziale Beziehungen und Selbstwahrnehmungen einschreiben – in Semantiken des Selbstwerts, auf der Suche nach Alleinstellungsmerkmalen und unique selling points, um sich von anderen abzuheben. Der Streifzug durch die Gegenwart geht mit Abstechern in die Kapitalismus- und Sexualitätsgeschichte einher, um aufzuzeigen, wie sich Begehren an Waren, Menschen und Werte bindet. Im Dreieck von Wert, Begehren und Authentizität ergründet Begehrenswert die Matrix unserer Gegenwart – und weist zugleich im alle verbindenden Begehren nach anders gelagerten, solidarischen Beziehungsweisen den Fluchtpunkt einer emanzipatorischen Perspektive auf.
Escrita criativa e ensino II
Esta obra aborda como o "arriscar" e o "enfrentar abismos" parecem não fazer parte do cotidiano das escolas do ensino básico e superior, tal afirmação é feita por observar o engessamento das práticas de escrita desenvolvidas nesse locus, um contexto que está em pauta permanente por pesquisadores da leitura e da escrita, tanto no âmbito dos estudos linguísticos como no dos estudos literários. Em vista disso, o objetivo desta obra é promover, a discussão da inserção da Escrita Criativa como componente curricular é pertinente e oportuna, pois é nesse exercício de escrita que os voos com a linguagem produzem o fictício, acionando o imaginário, como propõe Wolfgang Iser.
