Immeasureable feelings: liminality and the narrator’s point of view in contemporary Brazilian literature

Abstract

Rútilo nada, by Hilda Hilst, Teatro, by Bernardo Carvalho and Acenos e afagos, by João Gilberto Noll are narratives that feature narrators in limit-situations, in confrontation with death in different ways. The works analyzed place the protagonists in a threshold, from which the narrators produce speeches full of indetermination. In this article, we aim at verifying some consequences of the presence of liminality and limit-situations in the narratives, especially regarding the construction of the narrators’ points of view, which are distant from the hegemonic, patriarchal and heteronormative discourse that constitutes much of the canon of Brazilian literature