The Becoming-Animal in ‘THE PASSION ACCORDING TO G.H.’ by Clarice Lispector (in foreign language).
Abstract
In The passion according to G.H. by Clarice Lispector, afer the uncertain contact with the vivid body of a cockroach, the main character enters into an unknown dimension, which it remains apart from words and names. The movement of deterritorializaton, which initates the process of becoming-animal, establishes a zone of exchange between man and animal, which makes it possible to assess critcally the inner limits defning the state of being and identty, in oppositon to the (false) self-indulgence exhibited by the Cartesian subject. In this sense, thanks to the uncertain contact with an irreducible alterity, the subject loses his human shape and discovers the dimension of the neutral, which allows questoning the oppositonal topology that structures the excluding sexual binarism of the capitalist and hetero-patriarchal system, with the aim of claiming the sexual multplicity that produces the diference. Thus, in a sort of a foreign language, Lispector’s work makes the inscripton of diferent sexed bodies in writng possible, in oppositon to the monolingualism that restores the phallo-logocentric system of the western world.Downloads
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