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Post-coloniality, post-slavery, biofiction and co(unter)temporaneity

This critical essay promotes a connection between the contemporary concept from the literary theory field named "biofiction", the post-colonial theory and the issue of African-diasporicsubjetivization, from the Brazilian historical experience and intellectual possibility of speech, crisscrossed with a symptomatic study of the last novels written by Toni Morrison, Home (2012), and Jamaica Kincaid, See now then (2013), as well as of the novel A question of power (1970) by Bessie Head. The concept of biofiction is problematized as a zone of forces related to the historical processes of subalternization linked to colonization, slavery and their reverberations, in its potential of discursive divergence and "co(unter)temporary" production of subjectivities.

co(unter)temporaneity; post-coloniality; post-slavery; biofiction; subjectivity


Grupo de Estudos em Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura da Universidade de Brasília (UnB) Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, Universidade de Brasília , ICC Sul, Ala B, Sobreloja, sala B1-8, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro , CEP 70910-900 – Brasília/DF – Brasil, Tel.: 55 61 3107-7213 - Brasília - DF - Brazil
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