Gragoatá (Jun 2008)
Narrating is resisting?
Abstract
Analysis of contemporary fiction, in an attempt to explicit the transformations of literature in the context of social and cultural changes which characterize post-modernity. Identification of literary trends of thematization of the erasure of subjectivity in the hostile scenery of social exclusion. Search for a dialogue between literary writing in Brazil and in South Africa in the late 20th century, based on two specific works: João Gilberto Noll’s O quieto animal da esquina and J.M.Coetzee’s Life & times of Michael K.
