UID:
almahu_9948664621702882
Format:
1 online resource (191 p.)
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9781453911259
Series Statement:
Latin America 27
Content:
Subaltern Writings focuses on one of the most important Brazilian novelists of the first half of the twentieth century, Graciliano Ramos, and critically examines two of his novels, Caetés and Angústia. The analysis is based on the premise that the reader must bring to the forefront the notion of a subject that is close to non-subjectivity and must develop heterodox forms of cultural production as Ramos himself sketches them. Rather than insisting on the protagonists’ assumed mediocrity or derangement, which has been the norm in previous critical readings of the novels, Subaltern Writings reconstructs how their attempts at composing fictional texts constitute examples of subaltern approaches, often standing alongside «high» cultural production. Unable to enter a circuit of literary writing that silences subaltern speakers, the novels’ protagonists create narratives that, instead of becoming finished objects of consumption, end up as fragments or notes. In this sense, Subaltern Writings consists of exercises in reading an object that resists becoming one. This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of Luso-Brazilian and Latin American studies.
Note:
Contents: In the Beginning Was the Lesser Being (And the Word) – A Few Viventes – Acquisition (i): Home-made Indianist Writing (at Hand’s Reach) – Acquisition (ii): Graphic (and Real) Death and the Maiden – Impossible, Inevitable Caetés - or - Unending Primitivism – Among Bulls and Goats – Literary Barbarians and a Modernist Sublation - Lullabying – The Death of the Poet is the Birth of the Domestic Voice – Looming Revolution – The Solitary Act before the Letter of the Law (And Final Notes).
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781433123108
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3726/978-1-4539-1125-9
URL:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/30428?format=EPDF
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