Childhood in the work of Monique Revillion

Abstract

In this paper we bring some elements that exemplify the ways in which childhood is represented in the books Teresa que esperava as uvas and O deus dos insetos, which make up the work of Monique Revillion. To this end, we begin our analysis with some notes about the concepts of childhood and memory, in the social and literary contexts.  Memory, here, interests us from the idea of an adult narrator who recounts a childhood event. In the following, we select the short stories that deal with this theme and analyze those that feature children characters and their actions. The analysis perspective starts from an understanding of the corpus, which showed the intimate relationship between childhood and violence as the most recurrent sub-theme in the narratives. From this reading and these examples, the work lets us see the diversity of experiences presented by childhoods in the work of Monique Revillion, as well as some implications of this relationship between childhood and violence, characterizing what we understand as a "non childhood".