Banca de DEFESA: PAULO DOURIAN PEREIRA DE CARVALHO

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STUDENT : PAULO DOURIAN PEREIRA DE CARVALHO
DATE: 30/08/2024
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência (Google Meet)
TITLE:

REFLECTIONS ON MADNESS AND RACISM BASED ON THE LITERATURE OF LIMA BARRETO

KEY WORDS:

Racism. Madness. Literature. Lima Barreto.

PAGES: 154
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

This research aimed to reflect on racism and madness based on the literature of black writer Lima Barreto (1881-1922). Through content analysis and an interdisciplinary perspective that involves the dialogue between literature, sociology, anthropology, political science and history, we sought to produce an essay in order to feed the discussions by bringing other approaches that could broaden the debate about Berreto's work, which, here, is taken as a testimony of a black man who did not survive the oppression of race and class. It is clear that Madness and Racism, in addition to poverty, sadness, loneliness and resentment, permeated the writer's life. From an intersectional perspective that considers the intersection of social markers of difference such as race, class and madness, we understand that the writer was a victim of the racism that was structured in post-slavery Brazilian society. In that context, the lack of opportunities, the absence of policies for the inclusion of “freed” blacks, the traumas arising from the slavery regime, the denial of the culture of the enslaved, the unspeakable and unnamable pain of those who also hit “bottom,” to paraphrase the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, when referring to the “Muslims,” that is, the dehumanized, of the Auschwitz concentration camps, were exacerbated. For this study, in addition to the works already cited, others will help us delve into the immensity of Barreto’s thought, such as: Memories of the Clerk Isaiah Caminha, Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma, Diário Íntimo, Clara dos Anjos, and some short stories by the author, in addition to the biographies written by Francisco Assis Barbosa and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. In the interpretations of the content analyzed, authors such as Giorgio Agamben, Frantz Fanon, Grada Kilomba, Michel Foucault, Achille Mbembe, Djamila Ribeiro, Silvio Almeida, among others, will be called upon to help echo the voice of Lima Barreto. He is considered to have been a witness and a resister at a time when blacks, the insane, and the poor were incarcerated by a hygienist policy influenced by eugenics. Surviving in precariousness, with a lack of resources, family crisis, drinking alcohol to the point of sinking into delirium and mental suffering, without gaining recognition or space in the intellectual scene, Lima Barreto resisted to the point of not allowing his black presence to be drowned out by the whitening steamroller. In the face of madness, which is a racist society, the writer left us his testimony: an extensive and rich black literature, critical of racism and the cruelty of asylum life.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1149562 - ORIVALDO PIMENTEL LOPES JUNIOR
Interno - 1501788 - ALEXSANDRO GALENO ARAUJO DANTAS
Interna - ***.024.928-** - JANAÍNA ALEXANDRA CAPISTRANO DA COSTA - UFT
Externa à Instituição - LILIAN LEITE CHAVES - UFRR
Externo à Instituição - OZAIAS ANTONIO BATISTA - UFERSA