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"Internal" Literary History: Rubem Fonseca's "Intestino Grosso"

2016; Linguagem: Inglês

10.62791/mdsqpv71

2573-1432

Frans Weiser,

Literature, Culture, and Criticism

ABSTRACT: The term literary history has been understood in diverging contexts in the twentieth century, although, as Eduardo Coutinho points out, its practice in Latin America is increasingly subject to interrogations of the concepts that have traditionally defined critical interpretation. Building on Wendell Harris’s distinction between external and internal literary history, this paper argues that Rubem Fonseca’s short story “Intestino Grosso” (Large Intestine) rather than being only a textual artifact that critics utilize to impose their external readings upon literary events, also acts as a form of internal literary history as produced from within fiction to comment upon the state of contemporary Brazilian literary criticism. KEYWORDS: Rubem Fonseca, internal literary history, mock interview, literary criticism