Date of Award
2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Humanities
First Advisor
Young, Jessica
Area of Concentration
Liberal Arts
Abstract
This thesis begins with writing from Clarice Lispector (1943-1977), a Brazilian author who emigrated with her family at the age of two from the Ukrainian village of Chechelnik to near Rio De Janairo. Her family was Jewish, and they fled in the early 1920s amid a brutal Russian revolution taking place in the country and the resulting violent pogroms that targeted Jewish people. Thus, Lispector grew up with her family in Brazil and claimed it as her own nationality, writing in Portuguese, and causing intrigue in comparison to other Latin American authors for her narrative style. She has been recognized as a Latin American storyteller, although we could also place her in a growing canon of World Literature as a transnational author with multiple overlapping national, cultural and religious identities. As an author, she published novels, and short stories which have been translated into three languages and her work is increasingly being read around the world for its ongoing discussion of narrative structure, feminist post-structuralist literature, and dehumanization.
Recommended Citation
Alvarez, Jorge, "Reimagining lives radically in a human and non-human world
How do we come to know lives; how do we move towards a better balance?" (2024). Theses & ETDs. 6625.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/6625