Memories of war in brazilian contemporary fiction: dissolution of a concrete past

Authors

  • Regina Célia dos Santos Alves
  • Willian André Universidade Estadual de Londrina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2014.1.16686

Keywords:

Memories of war, Brazilian contemporary literature, Dissolution of identity.

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing certain verve of contemporary Brazilian fiction that, opposing the building of an apprehensible past, chooses to drown through the meshes of dissolution, blurring/distorting the memory of one’s experience. We intend to deal here specifically with the memories of war. For that, we are going to analyze excerpts from two fiction texts published in the second half of 20th century, separated by certain period of time: the novel Vaca de nariz sutil (1961), by Campos de Carvalho, and the novella “O oco” (1973), by Hilda Hilst. The narrators of both texts intend to build memories of a war they lived, but such memories lack precise space and time references: we only know that there was a war, but it is impossible do determine when or where it happened, and even against whom or the reason why they were fighting.

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Author Biography

Willian André, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Doutorando em Letras - Estudos Literários pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da UEL

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Published

2014-08-04

How to Cite

Alves, R. C. dos S., & André, W. (2014). Memories of war in brazilian contemporary fiction: dissolution of a concrete past. Letrônica, 7(1), 420–434. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2014.1.16686

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2014): Psicolinguística & Escritas migrantes na literatura contemporânea

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Literature

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