Rivalidade em identidades subalternizadas na Manaus de dois irmãos, de Milton Hatoum

Abstract

The present doctoral work in Literature and Interculturality, consists of proposing a reading key for the appreciation of the work Dois Irmãos (2000), by the manauara writer Milton Hatoum, from the thematic approach of the city, rivalry and subalternized identities. A contemporary, has the singularity of transforming the city of Manaus into a literary character. Milton Hatoum, with his watchful eye, captures the uses and customs of Amazonian society and, in the mixture of fiction and reality, opts for a classic narrative, but chooses as enunciating voices, subalternated characters, such as the indigenous maid, Domingas, and his bastard son, Nael, the narrator of the novel. The theme of rivalry, strongly within the family, in addition to being central and transversal, does not end in the private context of the family, given that other rivalries emerge from it, involving a range of different faces: political, economic, social, religious, urbanistic, cultural, etc. The study on screen starts from Cultural Studies to problematize the social representations present in the work, with the concern to analyze the text as a product of culture capable of producing meaning and sense. To debate the theme of rivalry from the perspective of violence and desire, we will use the theory of mimetic desire (GIRARD); To discuss the multiple rivalries present in the work from the perspective of subaltern voices, we used the concepts of subalternity (SPIVAK); to situate the epistemological place of Latin American production, the concept of babbling (ACHUGAR); finally, to shed light on the ordinary individual, an unsubmissive that produces bricolage as a form of tactics to survive the impositions dominant, we use the contributions of the concept of invention of the daily life (CERTEAU).