Cultura e sociedade

produced between 1958 and 1962 that depict emerging conflicts regarding her profes-sionalization as an “author” in the publishing project set in motion by her best-seller. It is a struggle between the lapidary outlook of a “slum dweller” – as a first-person witness and “reporter” – and her prismatic desire for creative writing, in many ways “detached” from her more immediated referents. This investigation seeks to characterize (a) post--modernity/contemporaneity appertaining to peripheral subjectivities in the intersections of gender, race, and class, in view of the disarticulation of time and of linear narratives (Agamben, 2009); (b) the exacerbation of the scopic exercise (Santiago, 2002); and (c) the overall effects of this intensification as translated by phantasmatic subjectivi-ties in a rapid process of alienation, reification, and spectacularization (Lukács, 2003).