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The short story collection Las voladoras, published in 2020 by Ecuadorian writer Mónica Ojeda, consists of eight stories that are shaped by an imaginative blend of the uncanny, violence, and the feminine. Within this narrative context, the aim is to address the assembly of women's bodies as heterogeneous constructs in relation to the violence they must confront, thus configuring posthuman subjectivities. We propose that in these stories, there are relationships between humans and non-humans that could be associated with what Donna Haraway terms "queer kinship." These relationships reveal ways of articulating women's identities with an explicitly collective and posthuman dimension, where Haraway's concept of "becoming-with" becomes paramount: "To be one is always to become with many". The reason these stories adopt this stance is because strictly human relationships, particularly those of men toward women, are highly hostile, marked by an excess of power and, therefore, violence. This motivates the need for women to generate complex, intergenerational, and vital connections among themselves and with other living entities, where such human exceptionalism can be nullified, contested, and/or transformed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents results of a qualitative research carried out with high school students from a Public School in the city of Maringá-PR, in order to answer the question: what pedagogical potentials, in the viscosity learning concept, has been revealed by the "Great is water" tale? Therefore, analyzing the contributions of this tale written by Primo Levi to the teaching and learning processes. For this purpose, it was used the tale, questions composed of open questions and an investigative experiment that will configure data collection instruments. The study allowed meaningful discussions regarding the use and contributions of the tale undertaken as a problematic tool for knowledge construction. In the discussions, it is highlighted the importance of methodologies that make reflections about the conceptions of the students on the similarity of concepts like viscosity and density possible. Furthermore, reflections about environmental problems and the concept of viscosity were significant points featured in the research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to compare literary translation production with respect to Anglophone homosexual-themed short stories in Portugal and Hungary, when both countries lived simultaneously under opposing dictatorial regimes. It also investigates the strategies adopted (or not) by the Portuguese and Hungarian publishers to evade censorship regarding same-sex representations in short fiction in English. The study complements the previous research findings on homosexual-themed long fiction (GOMBÁR 2017; GOMBÁR 2018). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literature has been dialoguing with different areas of knowledge for centuries. In this article, we will deal with the dialogue between the Bible and literature, in the work A via crucis do corpo, by Clarice Lispector. We will make explicit, in the Claricean text, the passages that refer to the biblical narratives, starting with the title itself, via crucis, and we will analyze this dialogue as the way found by the writer to mark an enactment of suffering in writing a book on demand and about sex, a controversial topic at the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Guy de Maupassant's short stories, descriptions of lunch, dinner, suppers, and picnics unleash fundamental episodes in narratives. They propose, frequently, elements for reflections on the characters, their desires and fears. They also evoke their intentions and their maneuvers to manipulate the other. In addition to the realistic effect intended by the author, as indeed many writers of the second half of the nineteenth century. Everything that happens "at the table", in the stories of the Norman storyteller, deserves an attentive questioning of the reader. In this article, it is a question of reflecting on the calculation, the duplicity, the constant simulation that guides the customs and the attitudes of peasants, bourgeois and aristocrats from the episodes involving meals. We will covers of different themes, but we will emphasize the texts dedicated to the Franco-Prussian War, from 1870 to 1871. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wander Piroli's storybook É proibido comer a grama (2006) is composed of 18 narratives, in which the theme of violence stands out, especially that which emerges in the urban space, having Belo Horizonte as its main scenario, its nerve center and bohemian surroundings, such as the Lagoinha neighborhood. Piroli's characters are the forgotten, excluded and social invisibles, ordinary people with their day-to-day problems: the poor, the black, the prostitute, the worker, the thief, the drunk, among other marginalized types. The purpose of this article is to analyze, from the perspective of violence, the tragicity in the story "Na velha Guaicurus", considering the concepts of cultural violence, structural violence and direct violence as described by Thomas Conti (2016). The tale tells the love story between the prostitute Etelvina, and the injections applicator João de Deus, who at the beginning alludes to the classic fairy tale (even though they are unlikely characters for that), ends tragically with the murder of the protagonist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dans cet article, nous avons analysé les contes "A curva", "Às moscas" e "O demônio quando quer fica bonito", par Henriette Effenberger, sous le biais de la dénonciation féminicide par la littérature de la paternité féminine. À cette fin, nous suivons principalement les perspectives des textes théoriques "O femicídio na ficção de autoria feminina brasileira", par Carlos Magno Gomes, "As vozes da violência na cultura brasileira contemporânea", par Tânia Pelegrini, "Violência doméstica contra as mulheres no Brasil: avanços e desafios ao seu combate" et Feminismo em movimento - tous deux de Lia Zanotta Machado -, entre autres productions liées aux études féministes. Nous avons donc adopté l'objectif de démontrer que la représentation du féminicide, dans les textes littéraires de l'auteur, répond à la défense des droits de l'homme à travers l'art des mots. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes some of the short stories included in Men without Women, in order to identify certain specific features ranging from the characteristic elocutionary style to the metanarrative construction, the creation of suggestive images, and the multiple cultural (music and film) or intertextual references typical of the author's work. Although Murakami considers his short stories a minor work, they are a significant example of his literary richness. The article starts out from the author's considerations regarding the novel-short story dichotomy and takes into account the chronology and editions of the stories translated into Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It presents the development and impact of the extension project "Ações de Letramento Familiar: a transmissão da cultura são-gonçalense" developed by the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. The extension project implemented activities in a rural school with the intention of drawing students' attention to the recognition of literacy events and practices. This would allow the learners to understand their main demands related to reading and writing and, at the same time, to reflect on the sociocultural aspects of their context. The results evidenced that the students socially explored the writing through the textual productions developed by them during the application of the project workshops. In this perspective, the actions of the project team provided students with the use with the use of many textual genres. The tales and comics have gained special prominence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En este trabajo, serán analizados tres cuentos de Henriette Effenberger: Linhas Tortas, Monólogo y Seja feita a sua vontade. Para tal, algunas perspectivas deben ser valoradas: la crítica literaria feminista, que tuvo como una de sus precursoras la teórica Elaine Showalter; los conceptos de no lugar X lugar antropológico, desarrollados por Marc Augé, en el libro Não lugares: introdução a uma antropologia da sobremodernidade; y la dicotomía entre espacios de flujo X espacios de los lugares, idealizada por Manuel Castells. La finalidad es observar, en los textos literarios seleccionados, los contextos en que los no lugares y los espacios de flujo son frecuentados por las protagonistas, a fin de reflejar sobre a pérdida de la individualidad femenina en una sociedad patriarcal y capitalista. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Tales of an unconscious" is the first book by Evaristo Montaño; the author presents in this work a collection of stories or micro-stories with a marked oneiric accent, in which he contributes originality and literary quality, being his work influenced by Carl Gustav Jung and Gabriel García Márquez, among other authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes the literary representation of the identity construction and racization of the black body in short stories from Cadernos Negros: Cristiane Sobral's "Pixaim", Serafina Machado's "As máscaras de Dandara" and Michel Yakini's "Orvalho da manhã". In these short stories, identity construction highlights skin color and hair, which are taken as diacritical marks, emphasizing how it is in and through the body, the material location for all aspects of identity, that racial conflict is experienced along the individual's life story. Without resorting to stereotypes or being limited to an obvious and simplistic duality (black versus non-black), the selected works bring characters whose identity construction processes are developed both as self-definition, from a gaze interior to the group, and from the perspective of a gaze exterior to it. The works present conflicting processes of rejection/acceptance of the black being which highlight both the psychological damage arising from the refusal of recognition, continuous discrimination and the internalization of such offenses, and the gains that come from the pride of belonging to a racial ethnicity and the appreciation of diacritical marks. The analysis relies primarily on the thought of Gomes (2002), Munanga (2008), Hall (2000), Silva (2000), Woodward (2000) and Todorov (2001). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers how womens' issues are presented in Lygia Fagundes Telles' short stories, evaluating narrative procedures and thematic choices, such as wickedness, dependence, conservatism, emancipation, loneliness, vanity or decrepitude. This study analyses the originality and modernity of Telles' prose, noting the cautious distance of her vision of the feminine condition from any contemporary trends or labeling. Finally, the paper also aims to study the portrayal of women by Lygia Fagundes Telles. This implies careful examination of how women occupy the role of the self, or subject, and to what degree Telles' womens' characters are individualized figures, facing different conflicts, in a variety of social, familial and affective situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Responding to the invitation implicit in the title “A famous man" [“Um homem célebre"], Machado de Assis' short story is discussed in light of the problem of the historicity of celebrity. Far from having always existed or being a very recent phenomenon, the celebrity – as demonstrated by Antoine Lilti – is a new form of renown, brought about in the second half of the eighteenth century, in a context of crisis of aristocratic societies, and of opening of a public space. Such perspective leads to associate the story of conductor Pestana to “John Doe" [“Fulano"] – a narrative about an authentic expert in the art of self-promotion, adept of a true “politics of proper name" – rather than to the author's other short stories with music-related themes. By analyzing the two short stories, and comparing Pestana and John Doe to some of Machado's characters obsessed with glory – Brás Cubas, Janjão's father (“Medallion Theory"), and Santos (Esau and Jacob) – we seek to demonstrate the existence of a reflection on the historicity of renown in Machado's writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article intends to pursue the path opened by Massaud Moisés in the essay "Machado de Assis: ficção e utopia" (1989), in which the critic examines "the difuse utopia in the imaginary fabric" in the fiction of Machado de Assis. Machado takes advantage, at times, of some recurrent images in the traditon of the utopic genre ("island", "city") associated to the idea of perfection and to the presentation of "new worlds" - which keeps a relation with the trips narratives -, besides nominal quotations of classic utopias, such as Morus and Campanella. In Machado de Assis, the utopias are recollected or alluded exactly for making more promptly the skeptical and pessimistic personality of the author, as object of denial and disbelief ( when not of ridicule), even if they can bring into the the reader the desire of a perfect world. This introductory study presents four short stories of the author: "O segredo do bonzo", "A sereníssima república" (both published in book in the collection Papéis Avulsos, of 1882), "Viver!" (from the collection of 1896, Várias histórias) and "Virginius (narrative de um advogado)", belonging to the phase of apprentice of Machado, being one of his first short stories. The four narratives reveal through their structures, themes and allusions, aspects that can be related to the utopic genre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is based on the literary production of António Torrado, targeting a young public. Having chosen a corpus which we define in terms of short stories "Of Example ", we will check in what way (s) the author conveys the newer messages of equality, brotherhood and respect for individual freedom of all beings. We will check that the tales analyzed obey to an universal construction of meaning, which we characterize as timeless and though they don't glimpse any classic morality, they aim to form the character of children, helping them to become aware of the reality that surrounds them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjectivity in Caio Fernando Abreus fiction should not be apprehended in the light of the Cartesian Cogito because it expresses a subjective experience as well as specific subjectivation which do not refer to a personal self rather, it relates to the way a given set of power relation produces the curvature. Being so, the Deleuzian concept of curve is a relevant tool to understand the fictional, subjective experience of the writer's work. In his artistic production, the classic image of the universal subject is replaced for the thought-event idea, where the exterior part is inseparable from its interior one and the movement processed in the author's short stories includes the interposition of the inside and the outside; therefore, such procedure can be understood as one which goes against the State apparatus. In order to understand the writer's artistic production as a war machine, I intend to analyze some of his short stories where the characters are similar to those visionary ones as pointed by Deleuze and Guattari: they are aware of the intolerable within a situation and open up a new field of possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study proposes an analysis of the toilette or, the clothing representation, in the short stories written by Machado de Assis during his mature literary phase. This investigation comprehends the complex symbolic meanings involving some of those garments, as well as the importance they acquire in the author's renowned narratives. It may be observed that the representation of such elements exceeds the more traditional realist experience. In other words, Machado de Assis does not only describe the garments in his narratives but indeed dresses them up with much ampler meanings that, when uncovered, provide us with a much more precise comprehension of the narratives they are part of. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the animality of the human characters in short stories of the Portuguese Miguel Torga (1907-1995), embedded in Bichos, Contos da Montanha and Novos Contos da Montanha. The animals themselves serve as a counterpoint to the man, contributing to a reflection on what are the human characteristics and what are the wild. The characters are grouped according to their traits: alienation; the strength of instinct; the use of strategies markedly animals; etc. In the end, it is concluded that Torga intended to highlight the animal dimension of the man and the humanity of the animal, showing how both have the same origin, the mother earth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]