Words that fit a life trajectory: memoirs of Ariel Dorfman

Authors

  • Cláudio Pereira Elmir Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos image/svg+xml

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5965/2175180304012012114

Keywords:

Chile, United States, migrations

Abstract

This paper analyzes the book Heading South, Looking North(1998), written by the American intellectual Ariel Dorfman. Considering the reading of his memoirs, it attempts to understand how the author, based on his life as well as his family’s, has constructed the bilingualism that has characterized his trajectory. Through the constitution of his multiple, but not always excluding identities, Dorfman has pointed out reasons for the approximation between a man linked to left-wing projects in Latin America and North-American cultural references, by means of migrations that have always been present in his life.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Cláudio Pereira Elmir, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Doutor em História pela UFRGS. Professor do Curso de Graduação e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da UNISINOS.

References

ALVES, F. A. N. A morte e a donzela e Que bom te ter viva: o teor testemunhal. Literatura em Debate, Frederico Westphalen: URI, v. 4, n. 6, p. 105-120, ago 2010.

COMPARATO, B. K. A anistia entre a memória e a reconciliação: dilemas de uma transição política ainda inconclusa. XIV Congresso Brasileiro de Sociologia. Rio de Janeiro, 28 a 31 de julho de 2009. Disponível em: < http://www.escoladegoverno.org.br/biblioteca/236>.

CORREA, R. & SUBERCASEAUX, E. Ego sum Pinochet. Santiago: Zig.Zag, 1989.DORFMAN, A. A morte e a donzela. Rio de Janeiro: Paz & Terra, 1992.

DORFMAN, A. Uma vida em trânsito. Memórias de um homem entre duas culturas. Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, 1998.

DORFMAN, A. O longo adeus a Pinochet. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2003.

JEANPIERRE, L. O lugar da exterritorialidade. In: RODRIGUES, H.; KOHLER, H. (Orgs.). Travessias e cruzamentos culturais. A mobilidade em questão. Rio de Janeiro: FGV, 2008, p. 183-202.

MC CLENNEN, S. A. Interview with Ariel Dorfman. Context, 15, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Dalkey Archive Press, s/d. Disponível em: <http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/article/show/216>.

POSTEL, D. Ariel Dorfman Interview. The Progressive, Madison, December 1998. Disponível em: < http://www.progressive.org/mag_intv_dorfman>.

ROLLINS, J. Ariel Dorfman writes home: literary citizenship and transnational belonging. In: RAHIMY, T. (ed.). Representation, expression and identity: interdisciplinary insights on multiculturalism, conflict and belonging. Oxford: Interdisciplinary Press, 2009, p. 69-78.

SZNAJDER, M. & RONIGER, L. Exile communities and their differential institutional dynamics: a comparative analysis of the chilean and uruguayan political diasporas. Revista de Ciencia Política, Santiago: PUC de Chile, vol. 27, n. 1, p. 43-66, 2007.

Downloads

Published

2012-06-20

How to Cite

ELMIR, Cláudio Pereira. Words that fit a life trajectory: memoirs of Ariel Dorfman. Tempo e Argumento, Florianópolis, v. 4, n. 1, p. 114–126, 2012. DOI: 10.5965/2175180304012012114. Disponível em: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/tempo/article/view/2175180304012012114. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2012): Dossiê: História e Historiografia do Tempo Presente

Section

Artigos

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Tempo e Argumento

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

The articles published by the magazine are for free use, destined for educational purposes and not commercial. The copyrights are all granted to the magazine. The articles whose authors are identified represent the expressed opinion of its authors and not the official position of the Tempo e Argumento magazine or of the Postgraduate Program in History of the Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina.