Errância e perdição no conto um episódio distante do escritor norteamericano Paul Bowles

João Augusto de Medeiros Lira

doi:10.5433/el.2012v10.e25573

Authors

João Augusto de Medeiros Lira Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/el.2012v10.e25573

Keywords:

wandering, perdition, Paul Bowles, expatriate fiction

Abstract

This work has the purpose to focus on certain literary strategies and articulations under the dialogic perspective of a discursive intercrossing between the concepts of Wandering and Perdition applied to the analysis of the short story A Distant Episode by the North-American writer Paul Bowles, highlighting the multicultural crossroads built by his outsider and expatriate fiction, revealing a multifacetary game of deconstructions and questionings within the dialogue between the author’s cultural and identity references (centers) and his experiences close to other cultural particularities (margins), trespassing boundaries, differences, and limits between the Self and the Other.

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Author Biography

João Augusto de Medeiros Lira, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE

Doctorate in Literary Theory from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco UFPE

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