BETWEEN CHRONICLES AND BORING CHILDREN: FOR A LATIN CULTURAL PROJECT IN CLARICE LISPECTOR

Abstract

Understanding the literary-cultural dimension of a work seems to be a great challenge when it comes to Latin American literatures. This is because cultural heterogeneity based on local differences also offers multiple perspectives for analysis. However, most academic intellectuals and researchers maintain a single Eurocentric and hegemonic discourse, prioritizing canonical perspectives to the detriment of local and marginal cultures. Thus, I seek in this article, through the analysis of some chronicles and the biographical-cultural profile of Clarice Lispector, to break with this academic paradigm that has compromised the advancement of Cultural and Subaltern Studies in Latin America, especially in Brazil. The choice of Claricean narratives is justified by the fact that even though born in the Ukraine, Clarice declares her Brazilianness in several writings and interviews, especially in the identifiable reflections of local Latin American culture in her texts. In this vein, and based on the thinking of authors such as Hugo Achugar, Walter Mignolo, Stuart Hall and Edgar Nolasco, I try to point out the latinity of Clarice Lispector through the themes addressed in some of his chronicles. The questions concerning the subalternization of knowledge and knowledge lead this work to identify, among others, the central artistic object of the chronicles of the Claricean chronicles in the themes of hunger, poverty and urban violence. In these themes it is possible to recognize local cultural aspects which indicates the real influence of the place in the artistic and cultural productions of this space as well as the dialogues for the differences that share this same socio-cultural space.