Echopoetics According to Clarice Lispector

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Date
Fri May 22nd 2015, 1:15 - 2:05pm
Event Sponsor
Center for Latin American Studies
Location
Bolivar House, 582 Alvarado Row
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Just as Ovid’s nymph Echo loses her corporeal female form and is transformed into pure reverberation, Clarice Lispector’s narrator-protagonist in The Passion According to G.H (1964) loses her “human frame” upon entering her maid's vibrant room-cavern. In this room, portrayed as an “empty stomach", an inhuman transformation takes place through the ingestion of an “alive matter” and the listening of “mute vibrations.” In the present talk, Professor Librandi-Rocha offers the term “echopoetics” as a way to conceptualize the reverberations of sounds and silences in Lispector’s literature, an approach that has important implications for contemporary discussions of cosmo- and bio-politics, post-humanism, and new materialisms. 
Marília Librandi-Rocha is Assistant Professor at the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University. Her book manuscript in progress is tentatively called Echopoetics: Writing by Ear in Brazilian Literature. Librandi-Rocha is Co-Editor  (with VincentBarletta) of the literary journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association, ellipsis. She coordinates (with Hector Hoyos and Ximena Briceño,) the DLCL research group, Materia, and (with Vincent Barletta) the digital project Sense & Sound in association with the University of São Paulo and the University of Bologna.

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