childhood & philosophy  

julio groppa aquino,fabiana jardim

É com alegria que introduzimos ao leitor o dossiê Incêndios: infâncias do presente, o qual reúne um conjunto de nove artigos dedicados à peça de teatro de Wadji Mouawad, Incêndios, e ao filme homônimo a que ela deu origem. Tratou-se de colocar ambas as ob... see more

dora lilia marín-diaz

Two births, five silences. In the film Incendies, childhood is represented as the experience of being marked by the profound and special relationship between traveling and inhabiting a space that is analogous to the suffocation of the birth experience—as ... see more

luis antonio baptista

This paper aims to present a reflection on the ethical implications of the notion of origin – a construct understood in the human sciences in the sense of cause, source, beginning—by way of a dialogue with Wadji Mouawad’s stage play Scorched. Borrowing fr... see more

cintya regina ribeiro

Scorched, a play written by the Lebanese dramatist Wadji Mouawad and published in French in 2003, suggests, beyond the singularity of a historical family context, an investigation about the relationship between gestures, ethics, politics and childhood. Th... see more

alexandre filordi de carvalho

This paper considers the play Incendies (MOUAWAD, 2013) as a fictional “making" in the sense proposed by Foucault (1994) of writing history. It aims to investigate how a set of heterotopic experiences can give rise a corresponding set of problematizations... see more

sandra mara corazza,deniz alcione nicolay

The present paper discusses the critical universe of the theatre play Incêndios, by Wadji Mouawad, taking the actions of the main character, Nawal, as both the starting point and the point of arrival of the narrative. It punctuates the writing and memory ... see more

flávia inês schilling,patrícia helena ferreira

In this brief article, it is impossible to resist the temptation to write about duplicities and opposites. After all, we are discussing Fires, which, contrary to what is currently expected, is a story without a happy ending. Or even without an ending, may... see more

david kennedy,walter omar kohan

This text is an attempt to offer a reading of Incendies, a 2010 Canadian film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve, adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play of the same name in the light of Lyotard’s notion of infantia. From this perspective, we can make a d... see more

fabiana augusta alves jardim

This paper works from Wadji Mouawad’s play, Scorched, to examine the problems that the various practices State violence introduce into our political/ cultural scene. I believe that these problems modify the relations between government and the governed on... see more

julio groppa aquino

Starting from a brief reading of Caravaggio’s painting The Cardsharps, the article begins by suggesting a theoretical platform for an analysis of the different regimes of time immanent in the experience of living and, more specifically, in its narrative a... see more