A cartography of childhood: a rereading exercise of A idade do serrote, by Murilo Mendes

Authors

  • Francisco Thiago Camêlo Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Keywords:

Childhood, Murilo Mendes, Writing

Abstract

This paper challenges traditional readings of Murilo Mendes’ work A idade do serrote (1968), and investigates the power of a “language childhood” in connection with Mendes’ writing. For this exercise, some chapters of his memoirs are discussed in a dialogue with philosophical propositions expressed by Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Jean-François Lyotard, and Walter Benjamin. By promoting an encounter between artistic expression and philosophical thinking, this article aims at showing childhood power as a discursive operator.

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Author Biography

Francisco Thiago Camêlo, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Mestrando em Literatura, Cultura e Contemporaneidade pela PUC-Rio e pesquisador da Cátedra UNESCO de Leitura da PUC-Rio.

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Published

2016-12-15

How to Cite

Camêlo, F. T. (2016). A cartography of childhood: a rereading exercise of A idade do serrote, by Murilo Mendes. FronteiraZ. Journal of the Postgraduate Studies in Literature and Literary Criticism Program, (17), 155–169. Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/fronteiraz/article/view/26518

Issue

No. 17 (2016)

Section

Articles