Heterotopias of writing and literary displacements

Abstract In this paper, we propose an approach to literature produced in heterotopic spaces (Foucault, 2015), where the word emerges unexpectedly. The focus of the paper is to investigate what diverts this kind of literature from established spaces, from a political approach, calling into question divisions and hierarchies in the distribution of the sensible (Rancière, 2009). We examine the universe of this writing in the collection Exercícios de uma escrita menor: um olhar atelial (Farina; Garavelo; Fonseca, 2014), a set of texts produced by patients at the Hospital Psiquiátrico São Pedro, in Porto Alegre.