Mr. Tavares: a walk trough the neigborhood of Gonçalo M. Tavares

It is a critical consensus that one of the many tools of what we call literature is intertextuality. I’m using this concept in it’s broadest sense, including quotation, reference, parody, paraphrases: all different kinds of mechanisms that puts a text in contact whit another text. We propose, in the following article, to discuss if the way that the Portuguese writer Gonçalo Tavares deals with literature in the collection The Neighborhood puts us in front of a new form of approach to literary tradition and with a new form of critic. We also want to propose that the concept of intertextuality is amplified by his work.

"From the hidden side of dictatorship to the filter of memory: contemporary Brazilian literature - resistance and exile"

The article analyzes several aspects related to memoirs texts from the banished people of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985), mainly the domino effect of the narratives about resistance, the intertextuality among these works and the role of the banished ones in the effort of constructing a revolution which passed over national limits. Using autobiographical works such as the trilogy started by Fernando Gabeira with O que é isso, companheiro? [What is this, comrade?], the narratives of Alfredo Sirkis (Os carbonários and Roleta chilena) [The carbonari and Chilean roulette], Flávio Tavares (Memórias do esquecimento) [Memoirs of forgetfulness], Alex Polari (Em busca do tesouro) [In search of the treasure], and Carlos Eugênio Paz (Viagem à luta armada) [Trip to the armed struggle], among others, and as theoretical references authors like Andreas Huyssen, Beatriz Sarlo, Leonor Arfuch, Tzvetan Todorov and Michael Pollak, the article aims at reflecting about the memories of the banished and the political prisoners as a bruising affirmation of a crucial period of the Brazilian History and collective memory.