Legacies and memories of violence in <i>Becos da memória</i>

This essay examines how the concept of “slow violence” (Nixon, 2011) features in the narrative of Conceição Evaristo’s novel Becos da memória (2006). Nixon defines slow violence as a diachronic process of disenfranchisement that affects principally low-income communities and racial minorities and th...

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Main Author: Leila Lehnen
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2019-08-01
Series:Anuário de Literatura
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/literatura/article/view/62859