When the illusion is sacred and Truth, Unholy: aesthetic legitimacy in Clarice Lispector and Carolina Maria de Jesus

What is in Hora da Estrela, by Clarice Lispector, missing in O quarto de despejo, by Carolina Maria de Jesus, to which only the first is considered "fiction"? The question is less obvious than it seems and the answer is steeped in power relations. Purpose of this article is to discuss how the definition of what is (or is not) literature, the literary relationships that establish the canon and thus the formation of the History of Literature permeate the question of aesthetic legitimacy. In the first part of the article, "How and why consider such and such works as 'literature'?" Tract of the relationship between literature and more value added in terms of understanding the birth of fiction. In the second part, "The truth of the unholy Hora da estrela," argue about the intimate relationship between Clarice Lispector, Rodrigo S. M. and Macabéa, to demonstrate the symbiosis between the three; configured as a work that is intended less fictional than what understand it. The third, "The illusion sacred in Quarto de Despejo" attempt to demonstrate how the book of Carolina Maria de Jesus matches all criteria that Richard Shusterman (1998) points out how certain work that needed to be considered "literature", making it a fiction more than what the caption printed on it ("Diary of a slum") reveals.

Dislocated Subject and Otherness in Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star

This article refers to themes such as the displaced subject and the relationship with otherness in Clarice Lispector's The hour of the star (1977). Firstly, it will approach the issue of a deviant or dislocated subject according to a psychoanalytical perspective. The narrator Rodrigo S. M. puts himself in ther margins of his society and Macabéa is an excluded character par excellence. In addition to that, both are presented as off-centered subjects. Secondly, the relationship between the "I" and the "other" will be analyzed, especially concerning the conflictive relationship between Rodrigo S. M. and Macabéa in its ethical implications.