Unprecedented references: science-fictional elements of representation in Portuguese-written literatures

• Grant number: 12/16918-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)
• Start date: November 01, 2012
• End date: September 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Comparative Literature
• Principal Investigator: Emerson da Cruz Inácio
• Grantee: Luana Barossi
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The initial goal of this project is, based on the definitions by Chu (2010), Suvin (1979) and Freedman (2000), understand science fiction as a parallax in the act of reading, by shifting the perspective from the analysis of science fiction works to a science fictional analysis of the narrative. In the process, I intend to verify relations between the science-fictional reading and its couple cognition/estrangement, which happens between the fictional world and the virtual (Bergson) that can be actualized as lines of flight in the reader's world. This task is possible by tracing a dialogue between Lusophone literatures (Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde) and philosophy, especially the works of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Michel Foucault. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BAROSSI, Luana. Unheard-of Becomings: lines of flight in lusophone narratives. 2015. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.