Travessias (Dec 2009)
THE LAST DAYS OF A FAMOUS MIME "REPETITION AND SPIRAL
Abstract
The short story The Last Days of a Famous Mime, written by the Australian Peter Carey and published in 1979, tells the story of a mime specialized in miming terror. I do the analysis of the story heading to the idea of a culture of terror that is growing in our contemporary society, as well as, the idea of the mime as threat established in and by the colonization and persists up to the post-colonial era, being visible in the literary production of this period, as it is Peter Careys literature. For this, I use Jacques Derridas, Jacques Gleyses Homi Bhabhas and Zygmunt Baumans thoughts.
