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- Abstract:
- This work examines with a 21st century perspective notions of progress in the gaze towards the Other in Erico Verissimo's 'O Continente' (1949), set in the 19th-century, and its English translation. An analysis of the close-third-person narration reveals how it performs shifts in point of view in time, language, race and gender. This perspective is found to be a political resource to experience alterity and its many nuances, as the literary form of 1940's context of postwar polarization and antifascism.
- Este trabalho investiga, com uma perspectiva do século 21, noções de progresso no olhar para o Outro em 'O Continente', de Erico Verissimo (1949), que se passa no século 19, e sua tradução para o inglês. Uma análise da narrativa em discurso indireto livre revela bruscas viradas de ponto de vista em relação a tempo, linguagem, raça e gênero. Recurso político de experimentação da alteridade e suas nuances, esta narrativa aparece como forma literária do contexto de polarização, pós-guerra e antifascismo dos anos 1940.
Citation
Gatti, Maria G.,
"Back to the future: gender, race and progress in the narrator of 'The Continent'"
(2020).
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/a09n-7547
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BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
...BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature (ISSN: 2526-4885), founded in 1988, publishes scholarly articles on Brazilian literature and in Comparative Literature with a focus on Brazilian literature, as well as book reviews, interviews with writers, English-language translations of Brazilian literature …