The polyphony of time: fiction, trauma and acceleration in contemporary Brazil

Authors

  • Rodrigo Turin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V19n35-2017-2-05

Abstract

Based on a few novels by Bernardo Kucinski, Julián Fuks, Ricardo Lísias and Michel Laub, this article investigates the characteristics that make up two distinct forms of temporality in contemporary society, marked by trauma and acceleration.

Keywords: temporality; trauma; acceleration.

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Author Biography

Rodrigo Turin

Doutor em História Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Professor do Instituto de História e do Programa de Pós-graduação em História da Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UniRio). Autor do livro Tessituras do tempo: discurso etnográfico e historicidade no Brasil oitocentista. Rio de Janeiro: Eduerj, 2013.

Published

2017-12-20

How to Cite

Turin, R. (2017). The polyphony of time: fiction, trauma and acceleration in contemporary Brazil. ArtCultura, 19(35). https://doi.org/10.14393/ArtC-V19n35-2017-2-05

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Dossiê História & Literatura