Existeixen dos temes que travessen la totalitat de l’obra de Rodrigo Blanco Calderón: la violència i la literatura. Aquests problemes, i els diàlegs que estableixen entre ells, són explorats en la ...narrativa de l’escriptor veneçolà des de diverses perspectives. En conseqüència, podem parlar d’una literatura metafictícia que constantment reflexiona sobre les seves pròpies formes. “Uñas asesinas”, el relat que tanca el seu primer llibre ( Una larga fila de hombres ), aborda aquestes qüestions i les vincula a problemàtiques que existeixen en la societat moderna. Concretament, amb la manera en què la societat de consum malbarata constantment, trobant-se en l’aparatosa necessitat de fer-los desaparèixer. En aquest estudi, partirem de l’anàlisi realitzat per Zygmun Bauman a Vidas desperdiciadas . La modernidad y sus parias per analitzar el text de Blanco Calderón, veient com es relaciona aquest problema amb l’altre al qual es dedica l’autor veneçolà, la literatura.
In this article, I explore the relation between metafiction, humour and the fantastic genre in a selection of works of Ana Maria Shua. After analyzing how metafiction operates in Shua’s works, I try ...to show that this metatextual reflection produces different effects. If on the one hand, the reflection on the genre produces a humoristic effect, on the other hand, the presence of reflexive procedures like metalepsis and mise-en-abyme have a fantastic effect. In any event, we are faced with a self-conscious writing which is constantly questioning itself in a constant desire to renew the genre.
The Bankruptcy: A Novel Silva, Ana Claudia Suriani da; Vezzani, Cintia Kozonoi; Parry, Jason Rhys
07/2023
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Set in the early years of the Old Republic after the abolition of slavery, Júlia Lopes de Almeida's The Bankruptcy depicts the rise and fall of a wealthy coffee exporter against a kaleidoscopic ...background of glamour, poverty, seduction, and financial speculation. The novel introduces readers to a turbulent period in Brazilian history seething with new ideas about democracy, women's emancipation, and the role of religion in society. Originally published in 1901, its prescient critiques of financial capitalism and the patriarchal family remain relevant today. In her lifetime, Júlia Lopes de Almeida was compared to Machado de Assis, the most important Brazilian writer of the nineteenth century. She was also considered for the inaugural list of members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, but was excluded because of her gender. In the decades after her death, her work was largely forgotten. This publication, a winner of the English PEN award, marks the first novel-length translation of Almeida's writing into English, including an Introduction to the novel and a Translators' preface, and accompanies a general rediscovery of her extraordinary body of work in Brazil.
Historiographical metafiction (HUTCHEON, 1991) poses questions about the truth placed by official historiography and points out that there are truths now told through the voices of characters erased ...and silenced by official histories. Therefore, in this perspective, this article aims, as an unfolding from the historiographical metafiction theory (HUTCHEON, 1991) and based on (socio)linguistic theories (MATTOS E SILVA, 2004; LUCCHESI, 2009, 2017, 2019; CALLOU; LUCCHESI, 2020; LUCCHESI; CALLOU, 2020), to analyze the novel Um defeito de cor, by Ana Maria Gonçalves (20212006) – a Brazilian author who lives in Minas Gerais – , as a historiographical metafiction of the linguistic contacts that occurred in the formation of Brazil, and consequently of Brazilian Portuguese language. This proposal shows us the need for an intersection between Literature and Linguistic Theories, given the fact that fictional narratives can be used as a support for several debates, in Literature/Brazilian Portuguese courses, about the socio-historical contexts of Brazilian Portuguese language formation, considering, especially, the lack of good film production illustrating this period.
Peter Ackroyd’s historiographic metafictional novel
(2006) entails a critical return to history – critical in the sense that it questions the essence of historical knowledge and revisits the past in ...order to comment on the politics of national identity. Beneath a façade of historicity, the novel explores the continuity of English cultural identity and narrates a fictional story that centres on the conflict of Catholicism and Protestantism in the context of post-Restoration emigration of Puritans from England to New England. The “old faith”, although marginalized, continued to exist in post-Reformation England. The novel ties the significance of Catholicism to a thorough sense of Englishness. Catholic faith is shown as an ancient anchor of English identity. Peter Ackroyd delves into the collective memory of his race in search of a sense of commonality, believing in the continuity of English national identity. Challenging humanist assumptions about historical authenticity, the novel calls into question the idea of religious homogeneity, offering a different narrative as equally valuable.
This study aims to spotlight the postmodern tendency of metafiction in Preeti Shenoy’s selected texts. Metafiction is self-conscious in relation to language, literary form, and storytelling in ...fiction. This form of fiction accentuates its construct and reminds the readers to be aware of a fictional work. Shenoy is a noteworthy postmodern writer, and her famous novels are ‘The Secret Wish List’ (2012) and ‘It Happens for Reason’ (2014). These two novels exhibit the subject of postmodern metafiction through her writings. In these novels, the protagonists overcome their family doctrines to fulfill their wishes. The method of study adopted the metafiction theories proposed by Mark Currie, Patricia Waugh, and Linda Hutcheon. It highlights Shenoy’s texts that represent the elements of metafiction through the protagonists. Using various theories related to postmodern metafiction, the view of metafiction in the texts is substantiated and explored. The postmodern perspective of metafiction is explored in Shenoy’s texts and analyzed with metafiction theories. The study results are compared and discussed with other studies and contemporary texts concerning metafiction. The findings show that metafiction is applicable in the texts of the two novels by Shenoy. She projects the aspects of metafiction in her works through her writing, especially narration, both fiction and reality.
This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many ...inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study acknowledges Ireland’s history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it also underscores how silence can serve as a valuable, even productive, means of expression. From a wide range of critical perspectives, the individual essays address, among other issues, the conspiracies of silence in Catholic Ireland, the silenced structural oppression of Celtic Tiger Ireland, the recovery of silenced stories/voices of the past and their examination in the present, as well as millennial disaffection and the silencing of vulnerability in today’s neoliberal Ireland. The book ’s attention to silence provides a rich vocabulary for understanding what unfolds in the quiet interstices of Irish writing from recent decades. This study also invokes the past to understand the present and, thus, demonstrates the continuities and discontinuities that define how silence operates in Irish culture. Grant FFI2017-84619-P AEI, ERDF, EU (INTRUTHS “Inconvenient Truths: Cultural Practices of Silence in Contemporary Irish Fiction”) Funded by the Spanish Research Agency AEI http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Regional Development Fund ERDF "A Way of Making Europe"
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