O Eixo e a Roda: Revista de Literatura Brasileira
type: channel
description: A revista O Eixo e a Roda tem como objetivo fomentar a produção teórica, crítica e ensaística na área de Literatura Brasileira, dando a oportunidade para que pesquisadores do Brasil e do exterior divulguem suas pesquisas e contribuam para o debate qualificado nesta área de estudos.
publisher: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
language: pt-BR
publication name: O Eixo e a Roda: Revista de Literatura Brasileira
issn: 0102-4809
items: Editorial
items: Territórios indivisíveis
items: Deleuze-Guattarian Writing is the Creation of a Body without Organs
items: The Ambivalent Body of the Poem
items: Bodies, things and politics of mourning in Huaco retrato (2021), by Gabriela Wiener
items: Body, Writing, and Violence in The Love of Singular Men
items: An 'Earthly' Reading of Campos de Carvalho's A lua vem da Ásia
items: Marocas, from “Singular ocorrência”
items: Original Communities and Cartoneros Books
items: KRENAK, Ailton. Um rio um pássaro. Rio de Janeiro: Dantes Editora, 2023.
items: Silences break in Letters to my mother, by Teresa Cárdenas
items: Literature, authoritarianism and human rights in current Argentine literature, the case of Ganarse la muerte, by Griselda Gambaro
items: Voice, Violence and Football
items: Apresentação
items: From Peacemaker to Insurgent
items: I was complaining about the cockroaches
items: The fear of μορμολύκεια (Pl. Phd 77e)
items: Roberto Schwarz and Mikhail Bakhtin
items: The becoming of the body in a lacerating pendulum game
items: The Night Hunter
items: Malaise, Well-Being And Ambivalences Regarding Carlos de Melo’s Formative-Emotional Process On Plantation Boy
items: Marilene Felinto: anti-fascist and counter-colonial writing
items: The polyt(r)opoi of discourse
items: The insufficiency of the lyrical I
items: BRUM, Eliane. Banzeiro òkòtó: uma viagem à Amazônia centro do mundo. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2021.
items: Paulo Henriques Britto, self-translator
items: From desubjectivation to the contemporary poetic subject
items: Displacements of space in the poetry of Ana Martins Marques and the processes of reconfiguration of the lyrical subject
items: Conversa – “Experimento e Experiência”: uma entrevista com o professor, poeta ecrítico Eduardo Sterzi
items: Pedro Nava and the genealogies of memory

Editorial
type: item
description: O presente número de O Eixo e a Roda apresenta, como é habitual, uma gama de artigos que abordam a literatura brasileira sob distintos vieses críticos, de modo que o leitor se encontra diante de um panorama daquilo que está sendo produzido nas universidades em diferentes partes do país.
subject: Apresentação
  topic: section
creator: Carolina Serra Azul
creator: Gustavo Silveira Ribeiro
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Carolina Serra Azul , Gustavo Silveira Ribeiro
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 12
ending page: 13
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.12-13

Territórios indivisíveis
type: item
description: Este dossiê é o desdobramento de um diálogo iniciado no XIII Congresso Brasileiro de Hispanistas, realizado em Florianópolis, na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), entre os dias 5 e 9 de agosto de 2024. Naquele encontro, um grupo de pesquisadoras e pesquisadores se reuniu em torno de um mesmo gesto: pensar os modos como a escrita toca o corpo — e é tocada por ele — em suas dimensões políticas, afetivas e materiais. O que nasceu como um simpósio temático expandiu-se, desde então, em reflexões que ultrapassam fronteiras nacionais e disciplinares, consolidando-se agora neste volume 34, número 3, da revista O Eixo e a Roda como um território indivisível: espaço de contágio entre corpo e linguagem, entre estética e existência, entre Brasil e América hispânica.
subject: Apresentação
  topic: section
creator: Ellen Maria Martins Vasconcellos
creator: Débora Duarte dos Santos
creator: Ana Carolina Macena Francini
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ellen Maria Martins Vasconcellos, Débora Duarte dos Santos, Ana Carolina Macena Francini
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 9
ending page: 11
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.9-11

Deleuze-Guattarian Writing is the Creation of a Body without Organs
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description: In this article, we problematize and make an attempt to heuristically define the Deleuze-Guattarian writing on the plateau entitled November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs? (plateau 6). We mapped the multiple literary arrangements of plateau 6, while taking into account their argumentative contexts. We analyzed, above all, the theorizations and ethical implications resulting from the process of creation of the drugged, schizo and masochist bodies. With such bodies, we elucidate the apprehension and appropriation procedures that Deleuze and Guattari adopt when building zones of indiscernibility between philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature. Furthermore, we seek to demonstrate that, in the aforementioned plateau, the authors not only build intensive and cross-cutting connections between heterogeneous domains of knowledge, but also articulate writing style, critical positioning and conceptual creation in an open system. We maintain that Deleuze-Guattarian writing, as a compositional activity, is the creation of a Body without Organs.
subject: Dossiê: Territórios indivisíveis: Corpo, escrita e política no Brasil e na América hispânica
  topic: section
subject: without Organs
  topic: keywords
subject: writing
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subject: schizoanalisis
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subject: philosophy
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subject: literature
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creator: Wagner Honorato Dutra
creator: Roberta Carvalho Romagnoli
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Wagner Honorato Dutra, Roberta Carvalho Romagnoli
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 58
ending page: 71
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.58-71

The Ambivalent Body of the Poem
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description: Through a close analysis of the third poem in Cenas de abril (“olho muito tempo o corpo de um poema...”), the essay seeks to outline a general reading hypothesis for Ana Cristina Cesar’s work, linking it, on the one hand, to the artistic and literary panorama of Brazil in the context of the military dictatorship and, on the other, to the historical situation of agreed redemocratization for which she formulates an agonizing poetic solution; a solution which, by tensing rival concepts of poetry, tries, in my opinion, to subsume the opposition between constructivism and spontaneity, art and life, language and body, making form, through the dynamic structure of the poem, the place of experience.
subject: Dossiê: Territórios indivisíveis: Corpo, escrita e política no Brasil e na América hispânica
  topic: section
subject: Ana Cristina Cesar
  topic: keywords
subject: constructivism
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subject: spontaneity
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subject: military dictatorship
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subject: redemocratization
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creator: Zeno Queiroz
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zeno Queiroz
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 143
ending page: 153
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.143-153

Bodies, things and politics of mourning in Huaco retrato (2021), by Gabriela Wiener
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description: This article presents an analysis of the work of mourning performed by the narrator of Peruvian writer Gabriela Wiener’s book Huaco retrato, using Judith Butler’s theory of human vulnerability and the notion of infinite mourning presented by Christian Dunker. The paper also examines the circulation of bodies and things in Wiener’s writing, based on the observations of Roberto Esposito and Aníbal Quijano. Similarly, the notion of atmosphere helps to discuss the production of affection. The results suggest that Huaco retrato questions the unequal distribution of mourning by linking intimate losses to memories of racial discrimination and demands for collective reparations. In the process, the writing of the body reveals the relationship between mourning and desire, challenging the subject/object division that underlies the European paradigm of rationality.
subject: Dossiê: Territórios indivisíveis: Corpo, escrita e política no Brasil e na América hispânica
  topic: section
subject: bodies
  topic: keywords
subject: things
  topic: keywords
subject: politics of mourning
  topic: keywords
subject: peruvian literature
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subject: Gabriela Wiener
  topic: keywords
creator: Diego Freitas Garcia
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Diego Freitas Garcia
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 82
ending page: 95
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.82-95

Body, Writing, and Violence in The Love of Singular Men
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description: The text re-reads the construction of the novel The Love of Singular Men through the marking of the colonial heritage in the division and segregation of the characters. By analyzing passages from Camilo’s narrative and his interactions with Cosmim and Renato, we focus on Cosmim in order to support an argument in which the past marks the present as a myth of formation that is structured below and beyond the logocentric presence. Renato, the third character, appears as a counterpoint at the end of the text just like in the novel, in other words, as a kind of venir for the future that could contradict all the logic established by the narrative until then. By leaving the conclusions open, the doubt that remains is the exact formulation of the future itself in its possibility of change, but not in its certainty. By balancing the hope of this with the immeasurability of Cosmim’s murder, what we end up with is perhaps a more negative assertiveness than a positive one.
subject: Dossiê: Territórios indivisíveis: Corpo, escrita e política no Brasil e na América hispânica
  topic: section
subject: Victor Heringer
  topic: keywords
subject: violence
  topic: keywords
subject: deconstruction
  topic: keywords
subject: (post)colonialism
  topic: keywords
creator: Fabio Saldanha
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Fabio Saldanha
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 112
ending page: 127
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.112-127

An 'Earthly' Reading of Campos de Carvalho's A lua vem da Ásia
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description: This paper aims to interpret the configuration of space in the 1956 novel A lua vem da Ásia, by Campos de Carvalho. In order to do so, I read the novel in an ‘earthly’ fashion, that is to say, I take heed of the manner in which its social and historical context contributes to the configuration of its spatial aspects. This course of action is in stark contrast to most interpretations of the novel, which read it from the perspective of its mad, lunatic narrator. The interpretation I propose here draws particularly on the concept of deterritorialization as employed by sociologist Renato Ortiz. It leads to construe the status of space in the novel as being de-centralized or mondialized. In this spatial configuration, the travelling narrator also becomes a ‘citizen of the world’ in the sense that he no longer needs to travel to find the same objects: they come to him. This configuration dissolves dichotomies such as East/West, North/South, and native/foreigner, which affects the way the narrator sees the world – and himself. I conclude that, if the space in the narrative can be interpreted as conditioned by the narrator’s ‘madness’, by his ‘mystical facet’ and/or by his ‘gnostic sensibility’, an alternative or complementary factor of this conditioning is the social and historical process of mundialization, observable in the phenomenon of deterritorialization, which appears in the novel, albeit in a hyperbolized manner, artistically and aesthetically modified.
subject: Varia
  topic: section
subject: Campos de Carvalho
  topic: keywords
subject: A lua vem da Ásia
  topic: keywords
subject: space
  topic: keywords
subject: deterritorialization
  topic: keywords
subject: mondialiazation
  topic: keywords
creator: Arthur Barboza Ferreira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Arthur Barboza Ferreira
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 295
ending page: 307
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.295-307

Marocas, from “Singular ocorrência”
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description: This article aims to look at Marocas, the main character of Machado de Assis’ short story “Singular ocorrência” (published in 1883 on the newspaper Gazeta de Notícias and later in 1884 on the collection Histórias sem data), and analyse how the character escapes both the ideals of the reformed prostitute, adopted by the romantics, and the vision of an incorrigible fallen woman, so dear to the realists. The paper also includes a comparison between Marocas’ journey and those of the protagonists from two of the plays mentioned in Machado’s narrative: The lady of the camellias, written by Alexandre Dumas Fils, and Olympe’s marriage, written by Émile Augier.
subject: Varia
  topic: section
subject: Machado de Assis
  topic: keywords
subject: "Singular ocorrência"
  topic: keywords
subject: the prostitute on 18th century literature
  topic: keywords
creator: Luiza Helena Damiani Aguilar
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Luiza Helena Damiani Aguilar
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 270
ending page: 279
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.%p

Original Communities and Cartoneros Books
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description: This paper researches the production of artisan books made of discarded cardboard covers, known as “cartoneros books”, a practice developed by cartoneras publishers, and explores the work of gathering, transcripting and bookbinding narratives from three communities originally from the state of Mato Grosso, aiming to analyze the relationship between the body and writing. We used the writings of Krauss (2024) and Krauss and Llera (2023) to describe the territory of cartoneros books. Using Certeau (2014) and Schierloh (2021), we tried to understand the link between the body and writing in the context of the production of artisan books, based on the founding narratives of the indigenous mato-grossense peoples. Based on Benjamin (2012), we talk about the narrator of the oral tradition who becomes a writing body in the weaving of cartoneros books. Finally, the article discusses the meeting of the practice of carton production with the school of one of the original communities of the state of Mato Grosso, the Escola Municipal Isolada de Educação Básica (EMIEB) de Cravari, situated in the Cravari village, owned by the Manoki people, with the development of the project entitled: “Indigenous Cartonera”.
subject: Dossiê: Territórios indivisíveis: Corpo, escrita e política no Brasil e na América hispânica
  topic: section
subject: Narrative
  topic: keywords
subject: Bodies
  topic: keywords
subject: Cartonero Books
  topic: keywords
creator: Flavia Krauss
creator: Alexandre Mariotto Botton
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Flavia Krauss, Alexandre Mariotto Botton
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 253
ending page: 266
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.253-266

KRENAK, Ailton. Um rio um pássaro. Rio de Janeiro: Dantes Editora, 2023.
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description: Ailton Krenak é um dos mais influentes pensadores indígenas contemporâneos, reconhecido por suas reflexões sobre os direitos dos povos originários, o meio ambiente e a relação entre humanidade e natureza. Nascido em 1953, na aldeia Krenak, às margens do Rio Doce, em Minas Gerais, pertence ao povo Krenak, etnia que historicamente sofreu os impactos da colonização, da marginalização social e da destruição de suas terras.
subject: Resenhas
  topic: section
creator: Rodrigo Felipe Veloso
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rodrigo Felipe Veloso
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 345
ending page: 348
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.345-348

Silences break in Letters to my mother, by Teresa Cárdenas
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description: Amid an arena of daily confrontations, being a woman involves encountering the construction of categories, with gender being the most prominent in defining her experience (Connell; Pearse, 2019). Understood as a social structure, the category of gender is permeated by discourses, ideologies, and dominations arising from social and political technologies, producing, as one of its consequences, silences. This control mechanism is used, for example, to establish power hierarchies, create categories of repression and oppression, or sometimes silence marginal voices that have the capacity to break the unspeakable, transforming the tolerable into the intolerable (Solnit, 2017). Based on this premise, this article aims to understand the rupture of silences and silencing in the work Cartas para a minha mãe by Teresa Cárdenas (2021). Throughout the narrative, there is the sharing of both pain and fears and family silences, wich drive the character to your breakup, a process made possible through the writing of her diary-letters. In light of this, based on a bibliographic research approach with qualitative and exploratory features, it is necessary to refer to scholars such as Lauretis (2019), hooks (2021), Piedade (2017), Gonzalez (2020), Fanon (2008), among others. Therefore, the understanding of the rupture of silences imposed on the self-diegetic narrator through her writing and the discovery of a community originating from the sharing of pain and experiences throughout the narrative becomes evident.
subject: Dossiê: Territórios indivisíveis: Corpo, escrita e política no Brasil e na América hispânica
  topic: section
subject: Silencing
  topic: keywords
subject: Ruptures
  topic: keywords
subject: Cartas para a minha mãe
  topic: keywords
subject: Teresa Cárdenas
  topic: keywords
creator: Maria Beatriz Ferreira Santos
creator: Algemira De Macedo Mendes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Maria Beatriz Ferreira Santos, Algemira De Macedo Mendes
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 207
ending page: 221
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.207-221

Literature, authoritarianism and human rights in current Argentine literature, the case of Ganarse la muerte, by Griselda Gambaro
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description: Ganarse la muerte was written between 1974 and 1975, being published in 1976 by Ediciones de la Flor: the very year in which the coup d’état took place. Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Méndez of the SIDE wrote a detailed report on this novel, for which it was banned in April 1977 by decree of the military junta. This article sets out to analyse how Griselda Gambaro highlights the political, social and epistemological violence exercised by the discourse and procedures of censorship during this dictatorship, incarnating it in the woman/homeland. Similarly, as Nelly Richard argues with regard to feminist epistemologies, this fiction promotes ‘new forms of political subjectivity capable of intervening in the multiple power struggles that take place between bodies, practices and institutions’ (2008, p. 8, our translation) and question the possibility of a general form of knowledge, attacking its supposed neutrality (Alcoff; Potter, 1993), without distorting the objects of knowledge due to ignorance, false propositions or invalid arguments (Haraway, 1995), as has so often been argued.
subject: Dossiê: Territórios indivisíveis: Corpo, escrita e política no Brasil e na América hispânica
  topic: section
subject: dictatorship
  topic: keywords
subject: violence
  topic: keywords
subject: female body
  topic: keywords
subject: silence
  topic: keywords
subject: censorship
  topic: keywords
creator: Marcela Crespo Buiturón
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Marcela Crespo Buiturón
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 193
ending page: 206
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.193-206

Voice, Violence and Football
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description: This article discusses the novella No fue penal: una jugada en dos tiempos (2023) by Mexican writer and researcher Juan Villoro, focusing on the antagonistic construction of the two protagonists, El Tanque (football coach) and Valeriano (video referee). The analysis highlights how each character experiences the game in a distinct way: the former linked to a sonic ordering of reality, and the latter to a videocentric paradigm. To this end, this study integrates football theorists such as José Miguel Wisnik (2008) and Luiz Henrique Toledo (2002), with bibliographical references on voice and body in Latin American literature, including Ángel Rama (1985) and Cornejo Polar (2000), Leda Maria Martins (2021), and Aguilar and Cámara (2017).
subject: Dossiê: Territórios indivisíveis: Corpo, escrita e política no Brasil e na América hispânica
  topic: section
subject: Latin American literature
  topic: keywords
subject: voice
  topic: keywords
subject: football
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subject: violence
  topic: keywords
creator: Luiza Sousa Romão
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Luiza Sousa Romão
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 237
ending page: 252
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.237-252

Apresentação
type: item
description: Apresentação do Dossiê
subject: Apresentação
  topic: section
creator: Paulo Benites
creator: Cristiano de Sales
creator: Prisca Agustoni
creator: Lucía Tennina
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Paulo Benites, Cristiano de Sales, Prisca Agustoni, Lucia Teninna
date: 2025-07-08
publication date: 2025-07-08
starting page: 7
ending page: 11
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.2.7-11

From Peacemaker to Insurgent
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description: The indigenous Anacaona represents a symbol of resilience and female leadership of the Taíno people. For resisting the forces of colonization that were eroding her ethnicity, she was executed, condemned to hanging for insurgence and rebellion, by the Spanish colonizers who arrived in the America continent with Christopher Columbus, in 1492. However, records about this historical figure and her people are scarce in the European hegemonic traditional historiography. It is within the literary universe that her figure finds space to be redefined in response to the historical erasure to which she was subjected. In this article, we present our comparative analysis of the fictional construction of this character in the uncritical historical novel Flor de Oro (Anacaona, Reina de Jaragua) (1860), by Francisco José Orellana, and the critical historical novel Anacaona: la última princesa del Caribe (2017) by Jordi Díez Rojas. To this end, we rely on scholars such as Celia Fernández Prieto (2003) and Fleck (2017) for theoretical support regarding the different modalities of the historical novel. Regarding the decolonial studies, we draw on Mignolo (2017). Additionally, we reference authors such as Martínez Miguélez (1994) and Federici (2017) concerning the role of women in society. Through our analysis, we demonstrate examples of the ideologizations constructed around the image of this indigenous woman over the centuries. We also emphasize the importance of bringing to light characters obscured by traditional historiography, granting them space in contemporary literature and, consequently, in the collective imaginary of Latin American society, which remains deeply rooted in coloniality-driven thought.
subject: Dossiê: Territórios indivisíveis: Corpo, escrita e política no Brasil e na América hispânica
  topic: section
subject: Anacaona
  topic: keywords
subject: historical novel
  topic: keywords
subject: decolonial studies
  topic: keywords
subject: indigenous female resistance
  topic: keywords
subject: Comparative Literature
  topic: keywords
creator: Tatiane Cristina Becher
creator: Gilmei Francisco Fleck
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Tatiane Cristina Becher, Gilmei Francisco Fleck
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 96
ending page: 111
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.96-111

I was complaining about the cockroaches
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description: The present paper analyses “A quinta história”, by Clarice Lispector, as well as its translations into English and Spanish: “The fifth story” and “La quinta historia”, respectively. The central objective was to analyse the lexicon of greater keyness in the short story and to contrast this lexicon with two versions of the Claricean short story translated abroad. To achieve this goal, theoretical-methodological procedures cover Translation Studies in connection with Corpus Linguistics. From statistical data and the establishment of the keyword “baratas” as a lexical unit of greater keyness (and, similarly, “cockroaches” and “cucarachas”, in the translations), a qualitative analysis is presented in which the symbolic use of the cockroach, portrayed as representative of evil in the tale analysed, particularly; partially extending the analyses to the Claricean literature in general. Regarding the translations, the results illustrate that translators’ lexical choices can lead to diverse readings in contrast to the text in Portuguese.
subject: Varia
  topic: section
subject: Clarice Lispector
  topic: keywords
subject: translation
  topic: keywords
subject: corpus linguistics
  topic: keywords
creator: João Vitor de Paula Souza
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 João Vitor de Paula Souza
date: 2025-07-08
publication date: 2025-07-08
starting page: 172
ending page: 185
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.2.%p

The fear of μορμολύκεια (Pl. Phd 77e)
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description: This article explores the complexity of cultural translation through the analysis of the folklore figures Mormó from Greek mythology and Cuca from Brazilian folklore. By comparing these entities, the interactions between cultural traditions and gender representations are discussed. The study reveals that both characters are used as pedagogical tools to control children’s behavior, reflecting social norms about motherhood. By considering the similarities and differences between Greek and Brazilian cultures, a translation that respects and values the original cultural contexts is proposed. The suggested translation for μορμολύκεια finds its point of contact with the folkloric Cuca, highlighting the need for intercultural dialogue to enrich literary and popular traditions.
subject: Varia
  topic: section
subject: translation
  topic: keywords
subject: μορμολύκεια
  topic: keywords
subject: cuca
  topic: keywords
subject: culture
  topic: keywords
creator: Leonardo Guimarães
creator: Gabriele Cornelli
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Leonardo Guimarães, Gabriele Cornelli
date: 2025-07-08
publication date: 2025-07-08
starting page: 156
ending page: 171
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.2.156-171

Roberto Schwarz and Mikhail Bakhtin
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description: This article seeks to understand how the notion of heterodiscourse, originating from Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the novel, is articulated in Roberto Schwarz’s critical work on Machado de Assis. To do this, we will analyze some excerpts from important essays by the critic about the author, taking into account the type of argumentation used in direct dealing with the literary text. It is also proposed to question how this type of analysis is combined with the theoretical framework that appears most frequently in the work of the critic from São Paulo, namely, the tradition of Frankfurt critical theory. As a conclusion, we discuss the possibilities of bringing these two theoretical matrices closer together for literary analysis.
subject: Varia
  topic: section
subject: Roberto Schwarz
  topic: keywords
subject: heterodiscurse
  topic: keywords
subject: Bakhtin
  topic: keywords
creator: Filipe de Freitas Gonçalves
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Filipe de Freitas Gonçalves
date: 2025-07-08
publication date: 2025-07-08
starting page: 144
ending page: 155
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.2.144-155

The becoming of the body in a lacerating pendulum game
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description: The research discussed the work Hospício é Deus – Diário I, by Maura Lopes Cançado, an author who has been little studied and often kept in invisibility, with the aim of highlighting the profound connection that the book presents with the notion of the body. Based on this scenario, reflections on the ideas of metaphor, grounded in the writing of Susan Sontag, and metonymy, supported by Jacques Derrida’s concept of différance, were used as guidelines to investigate the notion of the body in the diary. The hypothesis considered was that the link between the body and the writing of memory in Cançado’s work is established through a mirroring relationship between these two fields.
subject: Dossiê: Territórios indivisíveis: Corpo, escrita e política no Brasil e na América hispânica
  topic: section
subject: Maura Lopes Cançado
  topic: keywords
subject: Body
  topic: keywords
subject: Writing
  topic: keywords
subject: Diary
  topic: keywords
creator: Ana Elisa Drawin
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Elisa Drawin
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 15
ending page: 30
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.15-30

The Night Hunter
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description: The poet Roberto Piva (1937-2010), in Paranoia, his debut work, published in 1963, takes a nocturnal journey through the marginal environments of São Paulo, transforming the city into a dreamlike space where desire reigns. In Paranoia, the night emerges as a place of transgression, excess, and sensuality. The desiring gaze of Piva’s poetic voice transforms the universe around him into a vertiginous stage for processions of marginalized beings, inhabitants of the city’s underworld, among whom the poet mingles in orgiastic communion. Piva’s wandering through the night of São Paulo can be understood as a poetic of cruising, as theorist Jack Parlett (2022) proposed in his book The Poetics of Cruising. For Parlett, the gaze and imagination shape the encounters between strangers in the urban queer universe. In this play of gazes, the author sees a theater of poses performed and directed at a voyeuristic gaze. Based on Parlett and other authors who explore the urban experience from a queer point of view, this work aims to pursue the traces of cruising in Piva’s urban lyric, trying to show how this production poetically stages the erotic game of poses and looks so dear to cruising through the poetic voice transit through the nocturnal underworld of São Paulo in the 60s.
subject: Dossiê: Territórios indivisíveis: Corpo, escrita e política no Brasil e na América hispânica
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subject: Roberto Piva
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subject: city
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subject: night
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subject: cruising
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creator: Rangel Gomes de Andrade
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rangel Gomes de Andrade
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 154
ending page: 164
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.154-164

Malaise, Well-Being And Ambivalences Regarding Carlos de Melo’s Formative-Emotional Process On Plantation Boy
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description: As part of our studies about the formation of the failure – and the affects that it is constituted – on José Lins do Rego’s first three novels, we aim to examine, in this paper, the development of the emotional complex of the narrator and protagonist Carlinhos de Melo on Plantation boy (1932), a narrative that comprehends eight years of his life, from four to twelve years old. To achieve this goal, our theorical basis concern the psychoanalysis in order to investigate the child’s sentimental structure, important works about the Bildungsroman, and we also make use of this author’s and novel’s critical essays. This paper is divided in three affective valences: the malaise, the well-being and the ambivalence. At the same time that the boy, in the intimated-related chapters, is forged by sadness, which becomes perennial, especially because his mother’s murder – committed by his father – he also, in the chronical of customs chapters, feels the establishment of a life drive that integrates him to almost every person on the plantation. The ambivalences, mainly the sexual ones, bring up the phobic objects, which repulses and attracts him simultaneously. If José Lins do Rego’s focus is indeed on crafting stories where disenchantment is emphasized, Menino do Engenho allows room for joy and doubt. Regarding Carlinhos’s suffering, which will be drastically expanded in Doidinho (1933) and Banguê (1934), we are witnessing its origins.
subject: Varia
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subject: Malaise
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subject: Well-being
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subject: Ambivalences
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subject: Plantation boy
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subject: Bildungsroman
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creator: Pedro Barbosa Rudge Furtado
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pedro Barbosa Rudge Furtado
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 280
ending page: 294
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.280-294

Marilene Felinto: anti-fascist and counter-colonial writing
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description: We present a general analysis of twenty-three opinion articles and four reviews by Marilene Felinto published in Gama Revista, a publication of the Nexo Jornal Group and the Universo Online – UOL website, between February 2023 and September 2024. We used countercolonial methodologies to analyse the data (Spyer Dulci, T. M.; Rocha Malheiros, M., 2021; Fernandes, 2023), interested in problematising how the author erases colonial processes of subjectivation and what place she reserves in her writing for the dominant episteme and for counter-hegemonic knowledges. How does it resist coloniality and its techniques of dispossession for political and economic gain? We conclude that the corpus of research studied welcomes historically silenced voices and challenges the white patriarchal canon, questions the white male commercial media and protests against the shameful concentration of income. Anti-fascist and counter-colonial, the writing of Felinto - a woman, black and leftist, as she describes herself - is an important piece of critical analysis of Brazilian reality. Poetic and ironic, it echoes current anti-racist, anti-capitalist, feminist and ecological struggles, questioning the transparency of social reality, the promiscuity between large neoliberal corporations and modern/colonial politics. Above all, against the backdrop of a bureaucratic and self-centred life, by putting the struggles and dreams of dissident subjects on the agenda, her critical and acidic writing re-enacts the poetics needed to reinvent life.
subject: Dossiê: Territórios indivisíveis: Corpo, escrita e política no Brasil e na América hispânica
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subject: Marilene Felinto
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subject: countercolonial poetics
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subject: anti-fascist writing
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creator: Alexandre de Oliveira Fernandes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alexandre de Oliveira Fernandes
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 222
ending page: 236
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.222-236

The polyt(r)opoi of discourse
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description: As Lucius Provase stated, nowadays discourse no more is backed by the conventions that did so until recently. Hence, discourse multissituationality and its constitutive folding give place to language planification. Here, in an exploratory fashion, some questions around this scenario are raisded, without, however, intending to solve them.
subject: Dossiê: O lugar do sujeito na poesia brasileira contemporânea
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subject: Discursive backing
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subject: multissituationality
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subject: fold
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creator: Alexandre Andre Nodari
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Alexandre Andre Nodari
date: 2025-07-08
publication date: 2025-07-08
starting page: 24
ending page: 34
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.2.24-34

The insufficiency of the lyrical I
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description: In this article, I propose to discuss the limits of the “lyrical I” category, by carrying out a critical reading of an Amerindian poetic, the shamanic songs of the Marubo, translated by the anthropologist Pedro Cesarino (2011; 2013). Bearing in mind the importance of the pragmatic dimension to the debate, initially the relation between the Marubo worldview and ayahuasca will be presented, also in order to introduce the notion of the person concerned. Afterwards, resuming some systematizations around the lyrical self in modernity (Hamburguer, 1975), the comparative perspective will be mobilized, reflecting on the ontological distinctions and their enunciative developments, considering the subject and object relation. During the analysis, two fragments of Marubo songs will be focused on, one from a mythical narrative (saiti) and one from iniki, a poetic genre determined by being someone else's speech. At the end, as a way of lining up the discussion, the following points will be revisited: the presence of ayahuasca in the Marubo sociocosm, the importance of understanding the differences and encounters at stake and, finally, the possibility of other readings of the category of lyrical I, from an ontological perspective.
subject: Dossiê: O lugar do sujeito na poesia brasileira contemporânea
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subject: Lyrical I
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subject: indigenous poetics
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subject: ontology
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subject: poetry and ayahuasca
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creator: Fernanda Boarin
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Fernanda Vivacqua Boarin
date: 2025-07-08
publication date: 2025-07-08
starting page: 85
ending page: 100
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.2.85-100

BRUM, Eliane. Banzeiro òkòtó: uma viagem à Amazônia centro do mundo. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2021.
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description: This paper reviews the book Banzeiro òkòtó: uma viagem à Amazônia centro do mundo, published in 2021, by Eliane Brum. This work presents a critical reflection on the current Amazon, highlighting its importance as the “Center of the World” in a context of environmental crisis. The author, with over 35 years of journalistic experience, narrates her immersion in the Amazon territory and investigates the accelerated destruction of the forest, proposing a deep connection between body, mind, and nature. The work combines investigative research and personal accounts to unravel the struggle of traditional communities against exploitation and violence in the Amazon environment. By challenging cultural and temporal norms, Brum proposes an “Amazonization” of thought, and invites us to reflect on the centrality of the Amazon and the urgency of reconfiguring power and identity relations in today's world.
subject: Resenhas
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creator: Walisson Oliveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Walisson Oliveira Santos
date: 2025-10-14
publication date: 2025-10-14
starting page: 340
ending page: 344
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.3.340-344

Paulo Henriques Britto, self-translator
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description: This article aims to highlight an aspect Paulo Henriques Britto’s poetry that has yet to be explored, namely the way in which self-translation occupies a central place in his poetics, revealing a constant tension between the materiality of language and the emptying of meaning, which coincides with what he calls ‘forms of nothingness’ (Formas do nada). Based on an approach to the bilingual work of Samuel Beckett, a key figure in the studies on self-translation, the aim of this article is to propose a reading of Britto’s poetry that understands the self-translatory gesture not as mere rewriting, but as an inherent part of the lyrical subject construction, which coincides with “máscaras sem rosto” (self-translated as ‘vacuity’). Finally, the analysis of some self-translated poems from the books Formas do nada and Tarde, among others, shows how self-translation, in Paulo Henriques Britto, operates as a creative and aesthetic principle that highlights the insufficient nature of language and the “simulacros de sentido” (‘simulacra of meaning’) of this poetics that moves towards a confrontation with nothingness.
subject: Dossiê: O lugar do sujeito na poesia brasileira contemporânea
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subject: self-translation
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subject: multilingualism
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subject: Paulo Henriques Britto
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creator: Julia de Vasconcelos Magalhães Veras
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Julia de Vasconcelos Magalhães Veras
date: 2025-07-08
publication date: 2025-07-08
starting page: 101
ending page: 114
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.2.%p

From desubjectivation to the contemporary poetic subject
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description: This text presents itself as a brief commentary on the representation of the voice of the literary subject between Romanticism and the present moment, raising more questions than providing effective answers. If Romanticism gave birth to the great Author, sacred for his original voice and genius, Modernity gradually made the text itself, the word, gain centrality in the work, making the subject disappear, despite the author himself, despite even the clarity and objectivity to which the reading public was accustomed. By tracing this history in a very summarized way from the perspective of authors such as Benjamin, Blanchot, Barthes, Foucault, Merquior and Rancière, the article aims to present these authors’ affirmations and doubts, and to establish certain questions that help us reflect both on the place of the subject today and on the paradigm shift represented by the poetic subject.
subject: Dossiê: O lugar do sujeito na poesia brasileira contemporânea
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subject: poetic subject
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subject: desubjectivation
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subject: contemporary subject
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creator: Sandra Stroparo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sandra Stroparo
date: 2025-07-08
publication date: 2025-07-08
starting page: 13
ending page: 22
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.2.13-22

Displacements of space in the poetry of Ana Martins Marques and the processes of reconfiguration of the lyrical subject
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description: This article investigates the movements that allowed thinking about Ana Martins Marques’ poetry through spatial and subjective displacements. To this end, in addition to a brief overview of her works, we conduct a more detailed analysis of the poems from Como se fosse a casa: uma correspondência (2017), due to the recurring theme of the house in her verses. The research is based on theoretical texts addressing image theory, as well as the concepts of space and threshold. The threshold, understood by us as a transitional space, is the concept from which we interpret the spaces presented by Marques. Because the house serves as the center of one’s subjectivity and as a place of mediation between the internal and external worlds, the space constructed by the author establishes a direct dialogue with the threshold and projects a movement that places the lyrical subject in a constant state of displacement.
subject: Dossiê: O lugar do sujeito na poesia brasileira contemporânea
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subject: Contemporary poetry
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subject: Image
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subject: House
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subject: Threshold
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subject: Lyricism
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creator: Paulo Benites
creator: Clara Luz Martins Vaz
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Paulo Benites, Clara Luz Martins Vaz
date: 2025-07-08
publication date: 2025-07-08
starting page: 35
ending page: 49
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.2.35-49

Conversa – “Experimento e Experiência”: uma entrevista com o professor, poeta ecrítico Eduardo Sterzi
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description: Eduardo Sterzi é um dos principais críticos de poesia e cultura brasileira de sua geração, a dos nascidos nos anos de 1970. É professor na Unicamp e pesquisador arguto que já contribuiu de maneira contundente com os estudos da poesia medieval ao estudar Dante Alighieri, bem como se tornou referência incontornável para os estudos do modernismo brasileiro com escritos sobre Drummond, Murilo Mendes, Antropofagia, entre tantos outros temas e autores. Escreveu também livros de poesia e tem se dedicado a trabalhos curatoriais de artes visuais. O título dessa conversa/entrevista que fizemos com ele retoma o título do ensaio de abertura que Eduardo Sterzi escreveu para o livro Saudades do mundo (2022). Se no ensaio há uma leitura de Oswald de Andrade como escritor experimental, na conversa que travamos com ele, também temos a sensação de que as ideias levantadas, as hipóteses aventadas, apontam para uma força experimental da experiência crítica e poética de leitura da nossa tradição literária e também de nossa história cultural dos séculos XX e XXI. O leitor dessa conversa terá a oportunidade de entrar em contato com algumas das inquietações do professor, poeta e crítico Eduardo Sterzi em seu vasto trabalho de experimentação crítica.
subject: Entrevista
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creator: Cristiano de Sales
creator: Paulo Benites
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Cristiano de Sales, Paulo Benites
date: 2025-07-08
publication date: 2025-07-08
starting page: 116
ending page: 125
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.2.116-125

Pedro Nava and the genealogies of memory
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description: This article focuses on the genealogy theme in the work of the Brazilian doctor and memoirist Pedro Nava. Scrutinizing contexts and situations in which genealogy might be undertaken, the writer discusses the theme in (auto)biographical and digressive passages of his Memoirs. This study aims to examine how Pedro Nava links genealogical knowledge to cultural heritage, family history, genetic ancestry or social identity to reconstitute the past. The objective is to analyze excerpts of the Memoirs, according to reflections of Erik Erikson (1963, 1975, 1980), Paul John Eakin (2008, 2020) and Paul Ricoeur (1985, 2004), among others.
subject: Artigos
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subject: Pedro Nava
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subject: Memoirs
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subject: Genealogy
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creator: Maria Alice Ribeiro Gabriel
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Maria Alice Ribeiro Gabriel
date: 2025-03-31
publication date: 2025-03-31
starting page: 67
ending page: 85
doi: 10.17851/2358-9787.34.1.%p