América Latina no limite América Latina en el límite Latin America at the Limit

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel proposes to discuss writings and readings on and about Latin America to promote, as Jacques Derrida says, the limitrophy of this enormous space that is a whole continent. It is true that walls and guarded borders determine the limits of its inclusion. But it does not seem appropriate to reduce those spaces to the aridity suggested in discourses of social injustice. On the contrary, the margins, the borders and the walls, the limits of national, cultural, religious, linguistic and disciplinary territories, are full of life.
We invoke here less a utopian idea of continuity and more a thinking about the limit that is abysmal, as something falling out of sight. A limit that nourishes and multiplies itself. We wish to discuss a multiplicity of Americas, Latin Americas, and vertiginously constituted writings. We are interested in its abyssal and abysmal horizons, like “the third bank of the river” in Guimarães Rosa short story, which can only be glimpsed from the perspective of life’s narrative. We would like to see this boundary expanded through studies, essays, and the analysis of narratives that inhabit the zone where a discontinuity comes to exist, be it in the form of a people, a character, a writer, a story, a continent, a set of social data, or a relationship.

Sub Track

• Literature of the Americas

Session Organizer

• Carolina Correia Dos Santos, UFRJ

Chair

• Agnese Codebo, Villanova University

Discussant

• Mariana-Cecilia C Velázquez, University of Nevada

Individual Presentations

• Camilo Blajaquis y la creación de la cultura marginal - Agnese Codebo, Villanova University

• A Brazilian Recreation: Macunaíma - Vaclav Paris

• A história felina de “Meu tio o Iauaretê” - Carolina Correia Dos Santos, UFRJ

• Limite, excesso e alteridade a partir de 2666 de Roberto Bolaño - Luciano Nuzzo, Università del Salento