O CONTEXTO CUBANO PÓS-REVOLUÇÃO DE 1959 EM O LOBO, O BOSQUE E O HOMEM NOVO, DE SENEL PAZ

This work presents an analysis of the short story El lobo, el bosque y el hombre nuevo, published in 1990 by the Cuban writer Senel Paz. The analysis approximates fiction to history, identifying how these questions occur in the short story and at what degree they constitute a critic of the revolutionary government established in Cuba in 1959.

EXPERIENCE AND HISTORY IN EDMUND WHITE, BERNARDO CARVALHO AND MILTON HATOUM’S NARRATIVES

This article is a comparative study of three fictionists: Edmund White, Bernardo Carvalho and Milton Hatoum. We focus on the concepts of experience to investigate some modes of fictional constructions that allows us to say that a singular panorama of contemporary prose can be seen in a horizon where autobiography and history are key issues in the three authour’s poetics. Therefore literary theory will help us find theoretical paths towards what we name a poetics of mobility and closure at work in the fiction of these authours. Walter Benjamin, Phillipe Lejeune, Beatriz Sarlo and Jeanne Marie Gagnebin, amongst other thinkers, will guide theoretically our study.

Gretel and Edith: Jewish woman and exile in Alves Redol and in Joaquim Paço d’Arcos

Abstract: This paper examines the narrative construction of Jewish women in the short novel “O Mundo Perdido”, by Joaquim Paço d’Arcos, and in the short story “Nasci com Passaporte de Turista”, by Alves Redol.  Both narratives portray the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s and its effects.  Historical, biographical and literary information is taken into consideration to the analysis.

ANA EM VENEZA: THE DOUBT AND THE EXILE AS MOTIVE FORCE OF ART

This work aims to approach the novel Ana em Veneza (1994), of João Silvério Trevisan, considering discussions around culture / national identity and exile that occur from the character Alberto Nepomuceno. Thereby it is discussed the impressions of a character who is faced with identity dilemmas, between a dominant western culture – european - and his roots whose character is multicultural and multifaceted, as well as when approaching the issue of exile in the work, this dilemma becomes even more evident. Therefore, as a theoretical basis, will be used studies about historical extraction narratives, in view of the historical rescue and biographical present in the 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.