O espaço narrativo do corpo leproso em “O rei dos leprosos”, de Jack London

Bruno Silva de Oliveira

doi:10.51359/2175-294x.2023.258398

The narrative space of the leprous body in “Koolau the Leper”, by Jack London

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Bruno Silva de Oliveira Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Goiano https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1186-2473

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51359/2175-294x.2023.258398

Keywords:

body, leper, Jack London

Abstract

This article discusses the political and cultural image of the leper, thinking about the spaces that he and the disease occupy in society, focusing mainly on the body and the process of abjection that he goes through in the short story “Koolau the Leper”, by Jack London, reflecting on the processes of exclusion he suffers. The reflection points out that the carrier of Hansen's bacillus is a herald of crisis of categories, a living dead that disturbs and destabilizes due to its differences, absences and excesses. It was used to endorse this reflection: Ahuja (2007), Cohen (2000) and Foucault (2001).

Author Biography

Bruno Silva de Oliveira, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Goiano

Instituto Federal Goiano. Doutor em Estudos Literários pela Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Mestre em Estudos da Linguagem pela Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), membro do Grupo de Pesquisa em Espacialidades Artísticas (GPEA/UFU) e do Grupo de Pesquisa e Estudos de Língua e Linguagem (IF Goiano), e professor efetivo do Instituto Federal Goiano (IF Goiano). E-mail: bruno.oliveira@ifgoiano.edu.br.

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Oliveira, B. S. de. (2023). The narrative space of the leprous body in “Koolau the Leper”, by Jack London. Revista Investigações, 36(1). https://doi.org/10.51359/2175-294x.2023.258398

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