Name: DÉBORA FRANÇA TEIXEIRA WERRES
Publication date: 24/02/2023
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| LUÍS EUSTÁQUIO SOARES | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| JOÃO CLAUDIO ARENDT | Internal Examiner * |
| JOÃO RICARDO DA SILVA MEIRELES | External Alternate * |
| LUÍS EUSTÁQUIO SOARES | Advisor * |
| PAULO MUNIZ DA SILVA | External Examiner * |
| SÉRGIO DA FONSECA AMARAL | Internal Alternate * |
Summary: This master research analysed the profanation of the biopolitics in the work of The Notebook of Rosa de Lori Lamby (1990), by Hilda Hilst. The hypothesis that was taken into consideration is related to the Michel Foucaults concept of biopolitics, drawing on the basis of the disciplinary anatomy political of the human body and the regulatory controls of the population biopolitics. The Hilstian novel offered a unique opportunity to think of the reverse of the modernity State of exception, a concept studied by Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben. Considering this theoretical dialogue as a starting point, we argue that the modernity state of exception is formed by the biopower in a civilizational context in which the device of sexuality assumed an axial importance. From that point, it is possible to analyze the novel in line with the literature of profanation, relatively with the tie of the station of exception of the biopower, since it was ruptured by the fiction of the blasphemy through a literary discourse perjured itself to damned, in the double sense of a literature or a poetic perjure, in her style or in her unstructured structure. With the study of the aforementioned Hilda Hilst novel, this research aimed at contributing with the theoretical effort to think about the issue of absence, in the scientific literature, of analysis about Hilda Hilsts works linking them to the theme of the state of exception and, especially, to the modern biopower state of exception presents in the novel studied. At the same time it aims at collaborating with the critical fortune of the Hilstian literature from an interdisciplinary methodological perspective.
Keywords: Hilda Hilst; Biopower; State of Exception, Profanation; Naked life.
