El nombre de la vida. Un análisis de «La pasión según G.H.» de Clarice Lispector

The aim of the following article is to conduct an analysis of Clarice Lispector's work «The Passion According to G.H.» (1967) employing the critical tools offered by J. Rancière and J. Derrida. Through the literary experience of an identity crisis provoked by an encounter with a cockroach, the...

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Autor: Navarro Prieto, Francisco Javier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/719302
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/719302
https://dx.doi.org/10.15366/actionova2024.8.006
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Clarice Lispector
Rancière
Derrida
Animal
Politics of literature
The passion according to G.H
Filosofía
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Sumario:The aim of the following article is to conduct an analysis of Clarice Lispector's work «The Passion According to G.H.» (1967) employing the critical tools offered by J. Rancière and J. Derrida. Through the literary experience of an identity crisis provoked by an encounter with a cockroach, the text demonstrates the inadequacy of human categories to comprehend the living. Rancière's concept of «the politics of literature» will enable us to illustrate how the text disrupts traditional distributions of the sensible, while also configuring new delineations through which our forms of relating to ourselves and to animals are also reconfigured. Thus, both the anthropocentric categories that have governed relations between human language and animal life, and the modes of self-understanding of the human and understanding of the other, are called into question, paving the way for the possibility of new ways of seeing, feeling, and engaging with animals