Ali Smith’s novels and short stories are violently realistic in terms of depicting the hollow disconnected lives postmodern individual. However, they also, albeit obliquely, aspire for hope change. The loss a sense location, direction, and, as result, meaningful presence is interwoven Accidental’s persistent concern with time. Accordingly, this essay, drawing upon Michael Kane’s analysis time s...

When teenagers are given access to digital media equipment, their teachers and film club leaders may hope that they will take the opportunity make films of personal significance. Instead, young people often choose engage in a parodic dialogue with popular culture, process which feels more familiar and/or comfortable them, providing as it does creative space unburdened by expectations sincere ex...

Este artigo analisa o conceito de escrita si, empregado por Diana Klinger no contexto narrativas latino-americanas contemporâneas à luz da teorização daquele que lhe fornece sintagma – mas, a meu ver, não paradigma teórico em se baseia: isto é, Michel Foucault. Minha hipótese é que, sob égide do título foucaultiano (“A si”), propõe, na verdade, seu próprio pautado sobretudo leitura Judith Butle...

The Brazilian civil-military dictatorship was revisited by many contemporary novelists, being the literature of that period considered as a form "dictatorship file" (Figueiredo 2017). writers Roberto Drummond, in Hitler manda lembranças (1984), and Bernardo Kucinski, K.Relato de uma busca (2011), put on stage characters who, inserted dictatorial period, are tormented memories Second World War. ...