FROM OLD TRUNKS: TIME, CITY AND SUBJECTIVITY ON THE ECOCRITICISM AND OF THE POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES

This article is an analyze  of Os Velhos Troncos - The old trunk  - written by Murilo Vilela, which objectives are to show how our concepts of time influences in the style of how we relate it with the physical  environment as well as we experience it with our subjectivities. Although, our reading which is from the Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Critical point of view, we try to understand which notion of time and nature are discussed in its literature.

CULTURAL CANNIBALISM: A TURNING POINT IN THE PROPOSITION OF AMBIVALENT POETICS IN THE LATIN AMERICAN LITERARY DISCOURSE

The concept of cultural cannibalism was discussed and re-established by intellectuals from the field of literary and cultural criticism, and it was also the object of creative appropriation by a significant group of writers in Brazil and in the Latin America context. Nevertheless, this concept is revitalized in the contemporary context, reflecting the critical consciousness of the writer on the understanding of social inequalities that shape Latin America, in its different segments, be they political, economic or cultural.