Debates surrounding race in Brazil have become increasingly fraught recent years as the once hegemonic concept of racial democracy (democracia racial) continues to be subject an ever more agnostic scrutiny. Parallel these debates, and yet ultimately inseparable from them, is question what it "white." In this interdisciplinary paper, we argue that whiteness has established Brazilian public discourse a naturalized category. Seeking fresh perspective on perceive sterile debate, examine Machado...

The focus of this article is on what I conceive as a form comic-chronotope particular to Gilbert Hernandez. His works present specific interconnection between time and space that radicalises the common chronotopic device comic form. argue that, by carefully organising these essential elements (time space) in concrete whole within his narratives, Hernandez also re-imaging context, history sense identity with use To make it visible, will first analyse Hernandez's Luba Comics (2000–2004),...

This article analyzes Jorge Luis Borges’s views on race, as he expressed them in personal conversations with Adolfo Bioy Casares and vis-à-vis his fiction. In the recorded by Casares, Borges emerges a man of time social class worst sense possible: racism, bigotry, self-constructed whiteness inform almost all controversial statements blackness Brazilian people. The aims to expose cohesive racial discourse underlying not only private but also narratives. goal is challenge enduring “universal”...

Abstract Comparisons between Machado de Assis and Jorge Luis Borges share one commonality: they all fail to mention any direct relation the two authors. This article discusses a translation of Machado's “A Cartomante,” published in Revista Multicolor los Sábados, literary magazine edited by Borges, as link them. It proceeds analyze parallels Cartomante” Borges' “Eastman, el proveedor iniquidades,” both same space, finally undertake close reading translation. concludes that stories are...

Conversas de Burros, banhos mar e outras crônicas exemplares é o nome uma antologia brasileiras publicadas em Portugal 2006, organizada apresentada pelo crítico John Gledson. A faz parte da coleção Curso Breve Literatura Brasileira, idealizada português Abel Barros Baptista junto à editora Cotovia, com intuito divulgar a literatura brasileira seu país. Com importantes trabalhos sobre Machado, alguns crônica machadiana, como os capítulos 5, 6 7, Por um novo Machado Assis (2008), Gledson foi...

This article addresses Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of mimicry in a broader context, other than that cultural studies and post-colonial studies, bringing together concepts, such as Gilles Deleuze Difference repetition, among texts, names, Silviano Santiago, Jorge Luís Borges, Franz Kafka Giorgio Agamben. As partial conclusion, the intends to oppose freudian-marxist view Five propositions on Psychoanalysis (1973), Deleuze’s text about published right after his book The Anti-Oedipus.