Schutzian Frames of Apperception and the Inquisitorial Grammar in Branca Dias

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ID8250871
AutoresFernando Luiz Nobre Cavalcante (0000-0003-2803-5291, Duquesne University, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume10
Fascículo1
Páginas413-440
Data de publicação2025-12-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Latin American Religions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2509-9965 • E-ISSN: 2509-9957
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s41603-025-00310-y
OpenAlexW4417167542
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas16

I draw together history and dramaturgy through the figure of Branca Dias Coronel (Koren) (c. 1505–1589). This article offers a phenomenological reading of O Santo Inquérito , the play by Dias Gomes (O Santo Inquérito, 1995, p 83), treating it as a symbolic field where forms of violence are reinscribed—religious persecution and sensory and typificational violence. The question guiding my inquiry is whether Branca’s posthumous persecution, staged as a sacrifice, might be read not merely as the product of inquisitorial repression but as a dramaturgical condensation of silencing practices that operate at the level of the body, gesture, and sign. I turn to Alfred Schutz in Symbol, Reality and Society ( Collected Papers I: The Problem of Social Reality , 1967, pp. 297–299), whose distinction of our different orders involved in the appresentational situation—namely, the apperceptual, appresentational, referential, and interpretational orders—provides a generative lexicon for describing the layers of embodied perception that unfold within the scene. A ritual and sensuous dimension of performance emerges, in which Branca’s body—motionless, aromatic, inflamed—figures as a living trace of a symbolic struggle for recognition and survival

Dramaturgy · Embodied cognition · Field (mathematics · Grammar · Identity (music · Meaning (existential · Performative utterance · Semantic field · The Symbolic · Arts and Performance Studies · History of Colonial Brazil · Literature, Culture, and Criticism