Peer-Reviewed Articles:
Throughout the narrative, Balzac often uses the discourse of fashion to signal the protagonist’s lack of belonging within the new social order. Furthermore, he creates a timeless narrative by exploring the fragility of identity formation within a highly unstable society.
– In: Dos Santos, R. F., & Machado, M. G. S. « As interfaces entre moda e literatura em O Coronel Chabert de Honoré de Balzac le Colonel Chabert ». Lettres Françaises (UNESP Araraquara), 18, 247–261.
The intertextual relationship with the creation myth as conceived in classical Greek mythology, despite the existence of a corresponding myth in traditional Japanese mythology, as well as the figure of Yoshiko as a subversion of the Pandora myth, will be explored in the following sections. These elements form the thread that sets the narrative in motion and point to the significant connections between Cuenca’s narrative and various other elements of Greco-Roman and Japanese cultures.
– In: Dos Santos, R. F., & Ourique, J. L. P. « Minotauro vs. Godzilla: sincretismos greco-nipônicos em O único final feliz para uma história de amor é um acidente, de João Paulo Cuenca ». Revista Olho d’água, 10, 79–91.
The person who died by suicide was not necessarily desperate or mentally ill, as is commonly believed in the West. On the contrary, their death could restore the balance of on and preserve the perfection of their soul and memory, without major consequences for the greater existential order, in which the earthly realm is nothing more than a trivial transience.
– In: Dos Santos, R. F., & Sparemberger, A. (2018). « Da Indissociabilidade entre literatura e sociedade a partir de ‘Patriotismo’ (1961) de Mishima Yukio ». Estudos Japoneses, 39, 93–107.
Book chapters:
To address subcultures is always to speak of a society in tension, under such pressure that the need for release manifests itself in radical ways, drawing on shock, rebellion, and provocation to compel society to question itselfy.
– In: Hett, R. As subculturas da moda japonesa como um ato de resistência, p. 361-385. In A. Avancini, M. Hashimoto Cordaro, & M. Okano (Eds.), Ecos de catástrofes. São Paulo: GEAA.