In Search of Over There: education, space, and language

Abstract

Founded on the literary work Falling out of time, by David Grossman, the purpose was to indicate the creation of a space in language, through it, in the fracture of literature itself: a there, an over there, a some where language can take the author, characters, and readers to a space-place encounter expressed therein, in the words and silences. Literature as an intensive language, which, instead of seeking to say of the space-place-there as something outside, creates the space-place-there in the sharpening-folding of language itself, as it is its own raw material, the matter of expression of this space. Based on Deleuze and Pellejero’s propositions about the political power of literature, address the opening of languages to less informative and more expressive aspects in teaching activities and, maybe, offering students themselves the possibility of providing us with visions – creating, resisting, acting with a will to art (Oneto) – others spaces-geographies not yet responsive to us, perhaps allowing us to invent possible others, other manners of witnessing (Vilela), other potentialities of literature in education, other manners of inhabiting space as Massey urges us to do.