Painless exile

a reading of Quando chegar a minha vez, by Giselda Laporta Nicolelis

Abstract

Wheter studying children’s & youth’s novel Quando chegar a minha vez (When my turn comes roud), by Giselda Laporta Nicolelis (1984), this article problematizes the way that the work demonstrates literally a return to the country of political exiles. For analysis we can have a dialogue with Flavio Aguiar’s (w.d.) critical conception about the big scenarios that have been built by Brazilian Literatura and Culture, as well as the complex questions around exile formulated by Maren & Marcelo Vinãr (1992) and by Edward Said (2003). From this discussion, and from contributians by historian Daniel Aarão Reis Filho (2004) about political, ideological and cultural climate prevailed in Brazil from the end of 70’s and beginning of 80’s, it shows like is exile outlined, in this novel, as an ordinary experience, and not an extraordinary one, concealing, by this way, suffering and horror usually presents at this kind  of historical event.