Izvorni znanstveni članak
Illegitimacy and Absence in the Formation of Brazilian Literature: Case Studies of Sousândrade, Qorpo Santo and Luiz Gama
Tecia E. Vailati
; Universitet Leiden
Sažetak
Based on a Romanticist political and aesthetical programme and publication policies, circulation and historicization of Brazilian literature during the nineteenth century defined and founded what has long been considered as the “official” Brazilian literature. Politically speaking, it created not only the category of “Brazilian literature”, but also defined what should be visible and what should remain invisible, what is legitimate and illegitimate, and what could be said, read and felt in that respect. This, therefore, reorganized the whole field of literature in terms of rational and sensory experience. This article aims to stablish a theoretical base for analysing absence as a political category, considering the works of the authors from this period: Sousândrade (1833-1902), Qorpo Santo (1829-1883) and Luiz Gama (1930-1982), that were excluded from the literary canon for a hundred years, becoming accessible to the public only in the second half of the twentieth century. This work does not aim to focus on the reasons for exclusion, but to investigate how the absence of some works is articulated on the literary horizon at the specific historical moment, considered by many as the founding era of literary historiography and criticism.
Ključne riječi
Brazilian literature; the nineteenth century; Romanticism; canon
Hrčak ID:
170995
URI
Datum izdavanja:
18.11.2016.
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