“When the Egg Breaks, the Chicken Bleeds” Unsettling Coloniality Through Fertility in Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. and The Chronicles

In our study of The Passion According to G.H., supported by fragments from the Chronicles, we show: (1) how the passion of G.H. is the passion of a specifically colonial subject; (2) how fertility is an essential link between subjectivity and coloniality; and (3) how Lispector reconfigures fertility as a possibility of being deeply affected by the world. We argue that Lispector’s project must be understood as concerned with the revolutionary question of dismantling the colonial subject and its world through pregnancy and fertility. As such, Lispector reimagines the relation between the person and their (capacity for) pregnancy.