Raul Brandão and obsession of shadows: cult of identity fragment and unfolding in Brandonian theater

• Grant number: 05/02450-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2005
• End date: November 30, 2006
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature
• Principal Investigator: Guacira Marcondes Machado Leite
• Grantee: Camila Lima da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The goal of this project is to track down certain modern procedures that are peculiar to the characters built by the Portuguese writer Raul Brandão (1867 – 1930). It’s aim is to show how the cult of the fragment projects itself on the unfolding of identities of the Brandonian creatures that often seem to reflect inversely onto one another, as if it always came down to one and only character, which is there to be unfolded. (After all, what is at stake is the Brandonian theater’s intention to enact the drama of the individual that struggles with his own shadow).