Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: PAULO DOURIAN PEREIRA DE CARVALHO

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STUDENT : PAULO DOURIAN PEREIRA DE CARVALHO
DATE: 21/06/2022
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência (Google Meet)
TITLE:

Relations between madness and cacism in brazilian black literature

KEY WORDS:

Racism. Madness. Black Literature.

PAGES: 85
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

This research aims to establish relationships between racism and madness using Brazilian black literature as a source. Through an interdisciplinary perspective that involves the dialogue between literature, social sciences and history, it seeks to find the possible links that connect these two social phenomena that can be perceived as being in a cause and effect relationship when we contemplate the writings of the authors selected for the research. It is assumed that racism emerges as a major producer of mental suffering, that is, of madness, due to all the classifications, oppressions, silencing, and pain it entails, as postulated by the black philosopher Achille Mbembe (2014). For the analysis, we chose the works Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma, by Lima Barreto, the short story A Escrava, by Maria Firmina dos Reis, the book of poems Reino dos bichos e dos animais é o meu nome, by Stella do Patrocínio, and the novel Ponciá Vicêncio, by Conceição Evaristo.  The choice of these works was made due to the emotional, psychological, and social issues they evoke. Preliminarily, in all of them, "madness" and racism are phenomena that intersect and cross through the plots, and they also help us reflect about the harmful effects of a society built on a classist, racist, and generified rationality. The books reflect on social phenomena that intersect as social markers that produce indifference and oppression. Some of the characters seem to represent the "non-being", that is, subjects who experience indignity, and are subjected to psychological terrors and emotional torments that lead them to madness, people who are emptied of their human value. In this research, we think of madness as a social phenomenon, that is, one that is socially constructed and forged, and not merely a biological issue. Through the analysis of the content of the works, we perceive the manifestation of psychic suffering, which the authors express in a style of literature that can be thought of as combative, in the sense of denouncing social ills. Sometimes, we notice characters that are not resigned to the dictates of society. The works are loaded with biographical narratives. They conform a "black writing", or rather, a black literature that denounces the madness that reveals racism as a founding structure of mental suffering. In the content analysis undertaken, I chose to rely preferentially on black authors who present a counter-hegemonic epistemology in relation to colonial and colonized knowledge. In this way, we seek to break with historical logics of epistemic violence. The thesis will be composed of a set of five relatively independent articles, but which dialogue among themselves, four of them dedicated to a specific author and one bringing a general reflection on the research theme. In this research black literature is invited to speak in order to bring to light the terrible "white madness" responsible for creating monsters, misrepresentations, inhumanities from a "reason" that saw and still sees the "other" as absence, degeneracy, inferiority, delinquency and unreason.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1149562 - ORIVALDO PIMENTEL LOPES JUNIOR
Interno - 1501788 - ALEXSANDRO GALENO ARAUJO DANTAS
Externa à Instituição - JANAÍNA ALEXANDRA CAPISTRANO DA COSTA - UFT