Race subalternity in Torto arado: From silence to resistance
In this paper we analyze how the process of awareness increasing related to the condition of subalternity at the racial level happens in Torto arado (2019), by Itamar Vieira Junior. This process can be apprehended from the actions of the characters, who start to assume an active posture in...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | letrônica |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/39068 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/letronica/article/view/39068 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Subalternity Race relations Contemporary Brazilian literature Torto arado Subalternidade Relações raciais Literatura brasileira contemporânea Subalternidad Relaciones raciales Literatura brasileña contemporánea |
| Resumo: | In this paper we analyze how the process of awareness increasing related to the condition of subalternity at the racial level happens in Torto arado (2019), by Itamar Vieira Junior. This process can be apprehended from the actions of the characters, who start to assume an active posture in the face of the traditional exploitation structure to which they are subjected. From the episodes presented by the narrators of the novel, three black women who tell their own story and that of the group they integrate, we identify, describe and interpret events that, at first, signal a stage of submission of the characters, and that, in a second moment, suggest a range of awareness regarding their subordinate condition. Our analytical propositions are based on Gayatri Spivak's (2010) considerations on the concept of subalternity; Proença Filho (2004), about the trajectory of blacks in Brazilian literature; Dalcastagnè (2008), about race relations in contemporary Brazilian literature; and Albuquerque and Fraga Filho (2006), as a historiographical reference. |
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