Banca de DEFESA: DIEGO SOUZA DE ANDRADE

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : DIEGO SOUZA DE ANDRADE
DATE: 31/08/2023
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Remoto
TITLE:

Voices from the periphery in contemporary Brazilian literature: an analysis of the work Contos negreiros (2005) in the light of Subaltern Studies and Queer Theory

KEY WORDS:

Marcelino Freire; Contos negreiros; Character; Subaltern Studies; Queer Theory

PAGES: 126
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

This research aimed to analyze the work Contos Negreiros (2005), by the Brazilian writer Marcelino Freire, under the approach of Subaltern Studies and Queer Theory. The proposal was to connect characters from the work to marginalized social groups, in order to demonstrate how subaltern communities can speak through Freire's literature. Following this direction, this research sought to collaborate with studies on subalternity in literature, proposing hypotheses about the speech of excluded communities and perceiving their power of representation. Initially, we used works from the field of Subaltern and Queer Studies, highlighting Gramsci (2002) and Spivak (2010) and their concepts of hegemony and subalternity. For Spivak (2010), the subordinate has silence as an inherent condition, as there are a series of barriers against him that prevent him from speaking and being heard. In addition, we brought the issue around Queer Theory, where we highlighted the relevance of works by Gloria Anzaldúa (1987) and Guacira Lopes Louro (1997). The latter explains that the concept of queer serves to define a way of challenging the norms that regulate society. In this sense, seeking to recognize some heterogeneous voices of subaltern subjects in Contos negreiros (2005), we relied on the theoretical contribution of studies about the literary character, where the contributions of Antonio Candido (2010) and Beth Brait (1985) were important to us. Thus, we paid attention to the characters that inhabit Freire's work, since they are responsible for rescuing the voices of the peripheries of Brazil. Among those are homosexuals, illiterates, thieves, prostitutes, abused children, exploited Indians and black people. In addition to those problems, sex tourism and organ and human trafficking still emerge. We selected five stories from this work for analysis, namely Trabalhadores do Brasil, Solar dos Príncipes, Vaniclélia, Totonha and Coração. Our proposal was to discuss them from the presented concepts, in an attempt to verify how Freire's characters corroborate with the decolonial struggle, since we believe that those tales are capable of making the reader observe Freire's narratives through the bias of those who they could never tell. Going in this direction, we can say that the creation of subaltern and queer characters in contemporary Brazilian literature can serve as a positive reinforcement in the battle against the subalternization of peripheral subjects

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2247579 - YURI JIVAGO AMORIM CARIBE
Interno - 1420448 - RICARDO POSTAL
Externa à Instituição - MARIA SUELY DE OLIVEIRA LOPES - UESPI