Daniel Arrieta    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Associate Professor
Date	2013/07/10
Presentation Theme	The Nikkei chronotope: a Bakhtinian view of O Sol se põe em São Paulo
Conference	13th Conferences of the Brazilian Comparative Literature Association
Promoters	Rio Grande do Sul University
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Individual
Venue	Campina Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Details	The novel O Sol se Põe em São Paulo, by Bernardo Carvalho, consists in a rereading as a genettiano supplement of the Japanese writer Tanizaki Junichirô's novel Quicksand (Manji). The fact that Carvalho chose as the main homodiegetic narrator a young Paulista nikkei determines some space-time coordinates defined by Brazil and Japan in the surroundings of World War II and in the contemporaneity, while dialoguing with Quicksand's plot and characters. Bakhtin's idea of the chronotope as the materialization of space and time in the context of literature allows us to study the thematic and figurative importance of what we will call cronotopo nikkei in this novel, which establishes the connections between different times and cultures as different worldviews.