Resistência E Catástrofe Na Amazônia Contempornea

This work analyzes the fictional tale Mamí had reason, by João Meirelles Filho (2017), as a literary discourse that reframed the liberal, republican and capitalist thought that historically prevails in the conduct of the destinies of the Brazilian Amazon. The first hypothesis raised for investigation is that this short narrative puts the excluded at the center of the symbolic process, shaping a discourse of resistance to the traumatic incorporation of the region by the civilization of capital. The analytical axis is the representation of the space-time experience of the Amazonian subject oppressed by unfair and conflicting social relations, impacted and fractured in the tale by a flood that submerges the city of Belém and part of the eastern lands of the plain. Leitmotiv of the story, this hydrological accident breaks the paradigm of natural disaster and configures itself as a sociopolitical catastrophe. And this movement, according to the second hypothesis that we have raised, provides Mamí with a different regime of writing, that of catastrophe, which is discursively articulated with the allegorization of the reality of contemporary Amazonia

Amazon rainforest · Archaeology · Art · Humanities · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · History · Law · Literature, Culture, and Criticism · Memory, Trauma, and Testimony · Philosophy

• Resistir É Publicar. A Revista Margens Como Território De Produção Científicas Nas Cidades E Territórios Amazônicos

  Open Access•Carlos Augusto Nascimento Sarmento Pantoja, Eliana Teles Rodrigues et al.•Revista Margens Interdisciplinar•2024

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