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Title: | Interspecies Literature: Clarice Lispector's Zoophytographia | Authors: | Vieira, Patrícia | Keywords: | Ecocriticism; Plants and animals in literature; Inhumanity; Laços de Família; A Paixão Segundo G.H. | Issue Date: | 2017 | Publisher: | American Portuguese Studies Association | Project: | IF/00606/2015 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147307/PT |
Serial title, monograph or event: | Journal of Lusophone Studies | Volume: | 2 | Issue: | 2 | Place of publication or event: | Stanford | Abstract: | This essay analyzes the role plants and animals play in Clarice Lispector’s work. I argue that Lispector often stages a face-to-face encounter with non-humans to trigger a process of defamiliarization, whereby our anthropocentric values and norms come undone. I discuss exemples of this encounter in short stories from Laços de Família and in the novel A Paixão segundo G.H. In these works, Lispector reflects upon concepts we usually take for granted, such as reason or language, a process that results in a profound transformation and extension of these concepts to our non-human others. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/48126 | ISSN: | 2469-4800 | DOI: | 10.21471/jls.v2i2.194 | Rights: | openAccess |
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