The bodies in(of) modernisms and the modernity in(of) the bodies: the deed of the body in Brazilian and Portuguese postmodern literature

• Grant number: 13/11778-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: September 17, 2013
• End date: March 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Comparative Literature
• Principal Investigator: Emerson da Cruz Inácio
• Grantee: Emerson da Cruz Inácio
• Host Investigator: Ana Luísa Ribeiro Barata do Amaral
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade do Porto (UP), Portugal

Abstract

The emergence of the literary avant-garde and the resulting practice that offered not ensured standardization of content as the body, gender and sexual diversity in the literary movements such as Orpheus and the Week of Modern Art, which eventually conform literary aesthetic and moral judgments that both fought. When addition, absent was also a textuality that challenged the literary genres in their compartmentalization. Only the review aesthetics of modernist values, occurred in Portugal and Brazil over the years 1960, will provide, in both contexts, the emergence of literary discourse that covered topics taboo above, consonant political demands in both countries. This production, materialized by texts such as New Portuguese Letters and Flow-Phloem a scripture that gave rise, by breaking the boundaries of form, point to attempt to translate the body and in the universe of the text, introducing both modernism in the body as body in modernity. (AU)