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Abstract
In dialogue with Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's debates on 'perspectivism', this article attempts to answer the following question: if Amazonian Amerindian thought is based on another ontology – an ontology that promotes the idea that all animals are (or have been) potentially human, and which privileges difference rather than identity – wouldn’t the Amazonian way of telling stories, i.e. their narrative form, be necessarily different as well? The article focuses on three native Amazonian stories that narrate marriages between humans and members of other species.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Intimate Frontiers |
Subtitle of host publication | A Literary Geography of the Amazon. |
Editors | Javier Uriarte, Felipe Martínez-Pinzón |
Place of Publication | Liverpool |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Chapter | 7 |
Pages | 128-149 |
Number of pages | 20 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781786941831 |
Publication status | Published - 30 Jun 2019 |
Publication series
Name | American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography |
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Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Keywords
- perspectivism
- native Amazonian literature
- narrative
- narrative form
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Post-Anthropocentric Modulations in Brazilian Contemporary Thought
Sa, L. (Keynote speaker)
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