Revista de Culturas y Literaturas Comparadas (Dec 2015)
Bernardo Carvalho and Literary Transnationality
Abstract
The article proposes a reading of Mongólia (2003) by writer Bernardo Carvalho that aims to reflect on the implications of transnationalization in the literature of the XXI century. The Brazilian writer narrativizes the geographical, social and cultural horizon of this Asian country inquiring in its deepest content about issues linked to Buddhist religious corpus. It is one the first literary manifestations in the Brazilian tradition that focuses on foreign territories without historical or political ties to this neighbouring country. Thus, in this way the carioca writer ponders on the contemporary discourse on two main counts: the interpellation of otherness and the cultural estrangement in posmodernity
