O corpo-cronômetro As temporalidades do corpo na literatura brasileira

• Other Authors: Scholz, Janek (Editor), Wrobel, Jasmin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Berlin Frank & Timme 2023
• Series: Romanistik
• Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Popular medicine & health; Portugal; Brazil; French; Ana Cristina Cesar; Graciliano Ramos; João W. Nery; Lima Barreto; Livia Garcia-Roza; Maria Valéria Rezende; Age; Mental Diseases; Body Chronometers; Disease; Assisted Dying; Time; Die; Death; Temporality
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Summary

The studies presented in this volume examine the intertwining of corporeality and temporality in Brazilian literature from interdisciplinary perspectives. In some narratives, the texts make explicit the protagonism of the illness itself and the ambivalent relationship that is built up between sick or aging people and their former selves. In this context, different ways of excluding bodies that are no longer young or 'healthy' and are kept out of the public sphere are problematized. Silence and loneliness, but also the urgency of living to tell, are often the driving forces behind the narratives and poems studied.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (255 p.)

ISBN

20.500.12657/75901
9783732990542
9783732908387

Access

Open Access