The The City and the Dogs

the authoritarianism and the body docilization in the military institution

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https://doi.org/10.29281/rd.v9i17.8184

Abstract

The corpus of this study is the literary work La ciudad y los perros, published in 1963, written by the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa. The narrative reports about the cadets’ daily life from a Military School called Leoncio Prado, which does not exist only in fiction, and it is a famous institution in Lima, Peru, institution where Vargas Llosa was a student. The focus of the analysis is how literature deals with the formation in military institutions, taking into account the power relations that lead the operation of the school. Therefore, we based our research on Foucault's postulates (2013), as he focuses are on power, discipline and docile bodies, which are concepts with extreme importance for the analysis proposed to be done. Likewise, Mario Vargas Llosa (2004, 2013) promotes our research, referring to the construction of the characters. Thus, this study presents an analysis from the approach to literary criticism of socio-historical basis.

KEYWORDS: La ciudad y los perros; Authoritarianism; Docile bodies; Military Institution; Power Structures.

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Author Biographies

Bruna Rafaelle de Jesus Lopes, UFRN

Possui graduação em Letras Português e literaturas pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (2012) e mestrado em Estudos da Linguagem pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (2016). Atualmente é professora de língua portuguesa do Governo do Estado da Paraíba. Tem experiência na área de Letras, com ênfase em Literatura Comparada.

Rosanne Bezerra de Araújo, UFRN

Possui pós-doutorado em Literaturas Estrangeiras Modernas, no Departamento de Literatura Comparada, University of Kent, Reino Unido (2015). Possui doutorado em Letras pela Universidade Federal da Paraíba (2009), com estágio de doutorado na University of Nottingham, Reino Unido (2007-2008) e mestrado em Letras pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (2002). Graduou-se em língua e literatura inglesa pela UFRN em 1999. Tem experiência na área de Letras, com ênfase em Literatura Comparada, Teoria da Literatura, Linguística Aplicada e Ensino de Línguas. Atualmente é Professora Associada II do Departamento de Línguas e Literaturas Estrangeiras Modernas na UFRN.

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Published

2021-08-11

How to Cite

de Jesus Lopes, B. R., & Bezerra de Araújo, R. (2021). The The City and the Dogs: the authoritarianism and the body docilization in the military institution. Revista Decifrar, 9(17), 310–327. https://doi.org/10.29281/rd.v9i17.8184

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Vol. 9 No. 17 (2021): Revista Decifrar

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