About a disgusting family of tame goats and oxen devouring each other

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2179219484339

Keywords:

Colonization, Subject annihilation, Imaginary, Auto dos danados, Lobo Antunes

Abstract

The article focuses on the colonization process, triggered by Portugal, which installed, in autochthonous societies, via oppression and discursive practices, the imaginary of the annihilation of the Other. In the case of Portugal, the annulment of subjects led to the Salazar dictatorship, colonial wars and a sense of (dis)belonging and degeneration of the family and social structure. Based on this, the article analyzes the representation of the characters in Auto dos danados, by Lobo Antunes, which narrates the moral decomposition and economic decay of an Alentejo family, and concludes that this circumstance extends, as an allegory, to the portuguese land.

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Author Biographies

Daniel Conte, Feevale University

Daniel Conte is someone who believes in a secular society in which individuals are free to narrate themselves from their imaginary condition. He is a research productivity scholar of the National council for scientific and technological development (PQ-CNPq) and a coordinator of the Graduate program in cultural processes and manifestations (PPGPRO) at Feevale University. He also serves as a member of the Advisory committee in the area of Languages and arts of the Research support foundation of Rio Grande do Sul (2019-2024) and as an Ad-Hoc reviewer for CNPq, Higher education personnel improvement coordination (CAPES), Research and innovation support foundation of the state of Santa Catarina (FAPESC) and Research support foundation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS). Conte holds a PhD in Brazilian, Portuguese and Luso-African Literature and a Master's in Comparative Literature, in addition to a bachelor?s degreein Portuguese and Spanish language and literature from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He is a permanent professor and researcher at Feevale University, working at the Postgraduate program in Cultural processes and manifestations and at the Professional M.A. program in Creative industry. He guides Cientific iniciation, CNPq and FAPERGS fellows. He is a visiting professor at the Postgraduate program of Languages and literature at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in the post-colonialism and identities research line. As a researcher, Daniel Conte is linked to the research groups of Languages and cultural manifestations and creative industry (Feevale university) and participates in ?the Subalternities, Transculturality and Decolonial Perspectives (SUTRA) at the Federal University of Pernambuco, in addition to being a reviewer and member of the editorial board of important scientific journals throughout Brazil . He is a member of the Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature (ABRALIC) and the International Association of African Literary and Cultural Studies (AFROLIC). Conte is experienced in the area of Languages and literature with emphasis on literatures in Portuguese, working on the following topics: Literary comparativism, Literature and economics, Literature, colonialism and post-colonialism; Myth and literature; Literature, history, identity and intertextuality; African colonial wars. He has regularly published his research through scientific articles, book chapters and books.

Juracy Assmann Saraiva, Feevale University

Juracy Ignez Assmann Saraiva é graduada em Letras pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos; Mestre em Literatura Brasileira pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Doutora em Teoria Literária pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (1990) e realizou Pós-Doutorado em Teoria Literária, na Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2000). É professora e pesquisadora na Universidade Feevale, em Novo Hamburgo, e foi coordenadora do Mestrado Profissional em Letras e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Processos e Manifestações Culturais dessa mesma instituição. É Bolsista de Produtividade do CNPq, líder do Grupo de Pesquisa ?Ficção de Machado de Assis: Sistema Poético e Contexto? e participa do grupo Linguagens e Manifestações Culturais. Suas pesquisas na área de Letras concentram-se na obra de Machado de Assis, na leitura e na metodologia do ensino de literatura. Em 2011 recebeu o prêmio Pesquisador Destaque da Área de Letras do RS, concedido pela FAPERGS e instituições parceiras dessa Fundação. Entre suas publicações, constam "O circuito das memórias" (2009), obra sobre Machado de Assis, editada pela Edusp e Nankin, "Palavras, brinquedos e brincadeiras: cultura oral na escola" (2011), proposta de exploração da tradição cultural da oralidade nas séries iniciais do ensino fundamental, editado pela Artmed e "Texto Literário: Resposta ao desafio da formação de leitores" (2017), organizado juntamente com Ernani Mügge e Tatiane Kaspari, que se volta para a leitura de textos literários no ensino médio. Tem publicado inúmeros artigos, voltados para suas temáticas de pesquisa, em periódicos nacionais e internacionais, sendo orientadora de dissertações e de teses.

References

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MESQUITA, António Pedro. Salazar na História Política de seu Tempo. Lisboa: Caminho, 2007.

RICOEUR, Paul. Tempo e narrativa. Campinas: Papirus, 1983.

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Published

2024-03-08

How to Cite

Conte, D., & Saraiva, J. A. (2024). About a disgusting family of tame goats and oxen devouring each other. Fragmentum, (60). https://doi.org/10.5902/2179219484339