Lima Barreto e a literatura de urgência: a escrita do extremo no domínio da loucura. / Lima Barreto and the literature of urgency: the writing of the edge and the domain of the insanity.

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2007

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This thesis develops the concept literature of urgency to define a type of writing produced in some kind of emergency, in situations that are really close to the edge: in Lima Barretos specific case this is the basis to the analysis of Diário do hospício (Hospices diary) written by the author in 1919-20, while he was a patient in the psychiatric hospital Pedro II, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It demonstrates how this literature has appeared already contaminated by insanity and by the hospitals routine, constituting simultaneously a self-writting (lécriture de soi, a Foucaults concept) created to defend a trapped ego dealing with the institution and a document of historical value that accuses, from de the patients point of view, details of the psychiatric routine normally absent from the hospices official literature. This thesis shows how this urgency has contaminated other Barretos writings, contributing to make him the author of a literature-liberation which violated codes and enlarged the limits between life and work, white and black skin, poverty and wealth, ignorance and culture, popular and scholar literature, lucidity and insanity.

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literatura comparada loucura na literatura loucura e literatura barreto, lima, 1881-1922 - crítica e interpretação madness and literature

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