Up the river, into the dark: textual play and dystopian gloom in Joca Reiners Terron’s A morte e o meteoro
The dystopian character of Joca Reiners Terron’s A morte e o meteoro (2019) is indissociable from its critique of colonialism. But while the novel makes frequent references to the violent methods of exploitation that characterized American colonization, it mostly relies on allusions to different li...
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The dystopian character of Joca Reiners Terron’s A morte e o meteoro (2019) is indissociable from its critique of colonialism. But while the novel makes frequent references to the violent methods of exploitation that characterized American colonization, it mostly relies on allusions to different literary traditions—including gothic fiction, the adventure novel, and science fiction—in its depiction of colonialism. The dialogue with Heart of Darkness plays a significant role in A morte e o meteoro, which to a large extent is a critical rereading of Conrad’s novella. This article examines how this appropriation of textual and cultural paradigms shapes the dystopian outlook of the novel, while also offering alternatives to the hopelessness that defines its fictional world.
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| spelling | doaj.art-8f57dade4f7347dabebada86e1e55f462023-08-22T18:21:59ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaIlha do Desterro0101-48462175-80262023-08-0176210.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92681Up the river, into the dark: textual play and dystopian gloom in Joca Reiners Terron’s A morte e o meteoroAndré Cabral de Almeida Cardoso The dystopian character of Joca Reiners Terron’s A morte e o meteoro (2019) is indissociable from its critique of colonialism. But while the novel makes frequent references to the violent methods of exploitation that characterized American colonization, it mostly relies on allusions to different literary traditions—including gothic fiction, the adventure novel, and science fiction—in its depiction of colonialism. The dialogue with Heart of Darkness plays a significant role in A morte e o meteoro, which to a large extent is a critical rereading of Conrad’s novella. This article examines how this appropriation of textual and cultural paradigms shapes the dystopian outlook of the novel, while also offering alternatives to the hopelessness that defines its fictional world. https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/92681apocalyptic and dystopian fictionadventure noveltextual appropriationpop cultureHeart of Darkness |
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| title | Up the river, into the dark: textual play and dystopian gloom in Joca Reiners Terron’s A morte e o meteoro |
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