Literary representations of identity and difference concerning blindness stereotypes

Authors

  • Ricardo Sobreira Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”(UNESP), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/sig.v30i3.49174

Keywords:

Identity. Otherness. Raymond Carver. Subject. Postmodernity

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing fictive representations of identity interplays between self and otherness in a contemporary literary narrative. Such configurations of identities and differences have been analyzed by means of an interdisciplinary approach to the minimalist short story “Cathedral” (1983) by American author Raymond Carver. The literary text problematizes the stereotypes involving otherness in terms of race, gender and physical disabilities. In such a duel of masculine performances, the first-person narrator is forced to negotiate symbolically his own phobias and anxieties concerning the differences.

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Author Biography

Ricardo Sobreira, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”(UNESP), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

Mestre e doutor em Letras pela UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, com realização de estágio de um ano na University of Louisville, nos Estados Unidos. Atualmente é Professor Adjunto IV da Faculdade Interdisciplinar em Humanidades da UFVJM e Professor-orientador permanente do Mestrado Profissional Interdisciplinar em Ciências Humanas da UFVJM, campus de Diamantina – MG.

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Published

2018-08-31

How to Cite

SOBREIRA, R. Literary representations of identity and difference concerning blindness stereotypes. Signótica, Goiânia, v. 30, n. 3, p. 499–523, 2018. DOI: 10.5216/sig.v30i3.49174. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/49174. Acesso em: 25 nov. 2024.

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Vol. 30 No. 3 (2018)

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