The sublime and the grotesque: obscenity in Hilda Hilst

Authors

  • Jo A-mi Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira - CE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v38i3.31147

Keywords:

hilstiana literature, linguistic-imagistic flow, obscene.

Abstract

The present work aims to discuss the dialogical relationship between sublime and grotesque in the work A obscena Senhora D by Hilda Hilst, based on its status of contemporary fiction permeated by reconditioning of the language in its performance in the non-linear time. In this sense, it was used studies of the sublime, as a historical and philosophical and literary concept in the works of Longinus, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Victor Hugo and François Lyotard; issues relating to discussions on the grotesque and its dialogue with the sublime ways, the works of Mikhail Bakhtin and Michel Maffesoli had great importance - the poetic and obscene relationship of the work discussed in convergent concepts such as obscenity, eroticism, sacred and profane. From these analyzes, it was concluded that in A obscena senhora D the sublime and the grotesque show in a multifaceted character, contradictory, interlocutory, and therefore not exclusionary: solidifying the hybrid linguistic-imagistic flow of the hilstiana literature.

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Author Biography

  • Jo A-mi, Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira - CE
    Como escritora, publicou a ficção intitulada Cor Adormecida (2012). Enquanto professora-pesquisadora já trabalhou com pesquisas e projetos de extensão nas áreas de “patrimônio histórico e cultural”, “Leitura, Literatura e Ensino”, “Literatura e Artes Visuais”. É coordenadora do ATELIÊ - grupo de pesquisas e estudos interartes -, da UNILAB-CE, e, como educadora e artista visual, navega pela Literatura e linguagens artísticas contemporâneas. Completou seus estudos de doutorado na UFPE com a tese intitulada "Os risos na espiral: percursos literários hilstianos". Participou de exposições e instalações coletivas com algumas de suas pinturas e, em 2013, ganhou menção honrosa pelo conto O cabrito beija-flor, no XV Prêmio Estadual Ideal Clube de Literatura.

Published

2016-08-16

Issue

Section

Literature

How to Cite

A-mi, J. (2016). The sublime and the grotesque: obscenity in Hilda Hilst. Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 38(3), 29-299. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v38i3.31147

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