“It’s strawberry time”: argumentation, discourse and enunciation in Clarice Lispector’s A hora da estrela

Abstract

This study is explained by the fact that it places the work of Clarice Lispector in a new reference context, especially if we take into account also how the “female thought” (proposed by Carla Rodrigues in dialogue with the work of Jacques Derrida), here, arises under new conditions of language, going through the thematic plan and the updated discurse of the enunciators. As a central objective, we will strengthen the use of “enunciator”, not “narrator”, as a device for reading diegese, since it highlights the question of the interpellation and position of the enunciating instance before the discursive textualization, giving it ideological and argumentative dimension. That is, it is proposed to understand this “female thought” as a political practice before reality, the circulation of truths and society; which, from the perspective of the discursive functioning, helps us to think about Lispector fiction committed to the social, although not always by a explicit way, practice so common during most of the time when the author produced and published.