OS TRÂNSITOS COMPARATISTAS E O CONTO LATINO-AMERICANO NA CRÍTICO-POÉTICA DE GILDA NEVES DA SILVA BITTENCOURT

Abstract

Abstract: In the post-dictatorship period in Brazil, during the final decades of the 20th century - the discipline and field of Comparative Literature became established within the university system. The process of political opening prompted theoretical-critical re-examinations within academic circles, leading to a revisiting and reformulation of our neighborly relations with other Latin American countries. By proposing alternative ways of reading and viewing - and by recovering confluences whitin a post-national landscape - the analytical categories employed by professor and researched Gilda Neves Bittencourt explore approaches grounded in otherness; their foster reciprocal readings and highlight the contrasts and affinities of the short story genre from a panoramic perspective that transcends geographical boundaries. This essay aims to highlight certain critical advances in the researcher’s work, which entail attempts to overcome the distances and insularities during a period of political and cultural repression.

Key-words: Comparative Literature, Short Story, Post-dictatorship, Latin America, Transits