Banca de DEFESA: VANESSA SILVA DOS SANTOS

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : VANESSA SILVA DOS SANTOS
DATE: 10/03/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Instituo de Letras
TITLE:

THE HISTORY TOLD IN SILENCE A READING OF THE NOVEL A GLORIOSA FAMILIA: O TEMPO DOS FLAMENGOS OF PEPETELA

KEY WORDS:

The Glorious Family. Literature and History. Slave. Subject.

PAGES: 109
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Teoria Literária
SUMMARY:

The present work is dedicated to the study of the novel A Gloriosa Família: o tempo dos flamengos (1999), by the Angolan writer Pepetela. It is a reinterpretation of the seven years (1641-1648) in which Luanda remained under Dutch domination. The narrative focus is on the family of Baltazar Van Dum, a Dutch Catholic slave trader who gets involved in a series of conflicts to maintain his position during the war between Portuguese and Dutch. The entire plot is narrated by Balthazar's personal slave. The problem of the narrative voice of a slave about his owner and the fictional resources used bear witness to the master/slave relationship in a double vision. Filling the voids, converting his silence into a disguise, the slave is inserted in the game of power and language in which colonial identities are configured, which allows him to position himself as the subject of discourse in the course of the narrative. In view of this, we intend to verify how the novel fits into the framework of representation of the past and reinterpretation of historical facts, under the prism of the relations between Literature and History and from some key ideas of post-colonial theories. It also analyzes the way in which the novel highlights the consequences of slavery on individuals. The experience of colonization, the self-questioning of identity, the processes of deconstruction and resignification of notions rooted in Western culture regarding literature, the constitution of the subject and identity are taken as a presupposition. The relevance of this study is evident in the record of the symbolic mechanisms of reproduction of racism that persist to the present day. The Glorious Family is taken as a literary and theoretical reference that makes it possible, through its representation of slave societies and enslaved people, to outline the questions posed by the study of African literature in general, taking it as a comparative object for the analysis of post-colonial realities. . In addition, this study intends to comply with Law 10.639/03, amended by Law 11.645/08, which makes the teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African history and culture mandatory in all schools, public and private, from elementary school to high school. and intends to contribute to the formation of a generation more sensitive to the consequences of slavery in Brazilian society.

 

 

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