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Miriam Alves Plural
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 333

Miriam Alves Plural

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-04-29
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  • Publisher: Fósforo

Em 1978, no Teatro Municipal em São Paulo, surgiu o Movimento Negro Unificado (MNU), data em que o pensamento coletivo acerca da escrita de autoria negra começou a se formar, conectando escritores em um corpo cultural a um só tempo diverso e coeso. Embora já escrevesse desde a infância, é a partir desse movimento que Miriam Alves passa a elaborar as vivências e subjetividades negras brasileiras e a traduzi-las em seu fazer literário, cuja grandeza não foi devidamente medida pelo racismo estrutural que ainda hoje é motivo de combate na literatura e na sociedade. Nascida em 1952, aos trinta anos Miriam Alves passou a publicar seus poemas, contos e romances, pelos quais obteve reconhe...

Corpos ausentes: debates sobre linguagem, gênero e diversidade
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 117

Corpos ausentes: debates sobre linguagem, gênero e diversidade

O livro Corpos ausentes: debates sobre linguagem, gênero e diversidade pretende apresentar reflexões que coloquem em pauta essas questões, analisando a relevância da linguagem, em suas mais diversas manifestações, para o combate à exclusão e a promoção da diversidade. Para tanto, foram reunidos trabalhos nas diversas áreas da linguagem: literatura, mídia, estudos discursivos, sociolinguística, estudos culturais, estudos de gênero e de sexualidade, teoria Queer, dentre outros.

Self Portrait in Green
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 81

Self Portrait in Green

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-02-25
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  • Publisher: Influx Press

'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.

The Mosquito Bite Author
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 155

The Mosquito Bite Author

Originally published in 2011, The Mosquito Bite Author is the seventh novel by the acclaimed Turkish author Barış Bıçakçı. It follows the daily life of an aspiring novelist, Cemil, in the months after he submits his manuscript to a publisher in Istanbul. Living in an unremarkable apartment complex in the outskirts of Ankara, Cemil spends his days going on walks, cooking for his wife, repairing leaks in his neighbor’s bathroom, and having elaborate imaginary conversations in his head with his potential editor about the meaning of life and art. Uncertain of whether his manuscript will be accepted, Cemil wavers between thoughtful meditations on the origin of the universe and the trajectory of political literature in Turkey, panic over his own worth as a writer, and incredulity toward the objects that make up his quiet world in the Ankara suburbs.

Mourning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Mourning

International Latino Book Award Winner Edward Lewis Wallant Award Winner Kirkus Prize Finalist Neustadt International Prize Finalist Balcones Fiction Prize Finalist PEN Translation Prize Longlist “A feat of literary acrobatics.” —New York Review of Books In Mourning, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory’s strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland and to the contradictory, forbidden stories of his father’s Lebanese-Jewish immigrant family, specifically surrounding the long-ago childhood death by drowning of his uncle Salomón. But what, or who, rea...

Killing the Water
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

Killing the Water

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The Author as Plagiarist
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 682

The Author as Plagiarist

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Tagus Press

An in-depth look at how Machado de Assis affirms his uniqueness through the role of a reflective reader who eventually becomes a self-reflective author, whose text is primarily the written memory of his private library

About My Mother
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

About My Mother

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-07-06
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  • Publisher: Saqi Books

Since she's been ill, Lalla Fatma has become a frail little thing with a faltering memory. Lalla Fatma thinks she's in Fez in 1944, where she grew up, not in Tangier in 2000, where this story begins. She calls out to family members who are long dead and loses herself in the streets of her childhood, yearning for her first love and the city she left behind. By her bedside, her son Tahar listens to long-hidden secrets and stories from her past: married while still playing with dolls and widowed for the first time at the age of sixteen. Guided by these fragments, Tahar vividly conjures his mother's life in post-war Morocco, unravelling the story of a woman for whom resignation was the only way ...

Thus Were Their Faces
  • Language: en

Thus Were Their Faces

An NYRB Classics Original Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, a lapdog who records the dreams of an old woman, a suicidal romance, and much else that is incredible, mad, sublime, and delicious. Italo Calvino has written that no other writer “better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don’t show us.” Jorge Luis Borges flatly declared, “Silvina Ocampo is one of our best writers. Her stories have no equal in our literature.” Dark, gothic, fantastic, and grotesque, these haunting stories are among the world’s most individual and finest.

Home Reading Service
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Home Reading Service

In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad ...