The Decolonial Narrator: A Reading of The Distant Marvels, by Chantel Acevedo

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n159000

Abstract

In “The Storyteller: Reflections on the Work of Nicolai Lescov” (1987a), Walter Benjamin understands that the art of storytelling is about to become extinct once the storyteller, that one who gets his/her full corporeality when reunites the knowledge of the resident master craftsman and the traveling journeyman, seems to be no longer among us. However, when taking into consideration Maria Lugones (2014a) understandings of the decolonial, that it inhabits a non modern space, it is possible to admit the presence of the Benjaminian narrator, sometimes in the novel, genre that the he understood as a symptom of a process whose end is the death of the storytelling. In the novel The Distant Marvels (2015), the CubanAmerican author Chantel Acevedo creates a protagonist who is a literary representation of a narrator that incorporates the Benjaminian characteristics and, therefore, is competent in transmitting experience. The following article intends to verify how a decolonial reading of the aforementioned novel may contribute to the work of developing new epistemologies.

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Author Biography

Priscilla da Silva Figueiredo, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Priscilla da Silva Figueiredo é doutoranda do Programa de Pós Graduação em Letras da UERJ, sob orientação da Profa. Dra. Leila Assumpção Harris, e bolsista CNPq. Atualmente é bolsista do Programa Doutorado Sanduíche no Exterior na Claremont Graduate University, em Claremont, Califórnia.Professora. Sua atual pesquisa de doutorado relaciona-se com as literaturas de língua inglesa, literatura comparada, literaturas contemporâneas de autoria feminina, estudos de gênero, classe e etnia, estudos culturais.

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Published

2019-05-09

How to Cite

Figueiredo, P. da S. (2019). The Decolonial Narrator: A Reading of The Distant Marvels, by Chantel Acevedo. Revista Estudos Feministas, 27(1). https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n159000

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Vol. 27 No. 1 (2019)

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Thematic Section

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