Identidade e autoritarismo em Ninguém nasce herói, de Eric Novello

Abstract

The dissertation analyses the relations between identity and authoritarianism in Ninguém Nasce Herói (2017), by Eric Novello. Thereby, we aim to understand how the issues concerning identity are developed throughout the narrative and how this theme is approached by the authoritarian government of the work. Besides, based on the works of Moylan (2000), Hilário (2013) and Leopoldo e Silva (2016), we discuss how the choice of the dystopia as a narrative form influences the treatment of this theme. Therefore, we start by drawing a panorama of how the identity problem is placed in the works of the author, intending to better understand the way these issues are dealt in the narrative. In sequence, based on authors such as Hall (2011), Bauman (2005), Giddens (2002) e Castells (2018), we briefly discuss some theories of identity, focusing on the distinction between the essentialist and non-essentialist conceptions of identity. Then, based on the theory presented, we seek to comprehend how the authoritarian government presented in the story works and how it deals with the identity, it affecting the lifestyle (GIDDENS, 2002) and the construction of the auto-identity (GIDDENS, 2002) of the characters. Thereunto, we analyze the work based on the concepts by Rosa (2020) and Arendt (1989). Furthermore, we discuss the different strategies of resistance used by the characters and how they hold to the resistance identity (CASTELLS, 2018). At the end of the work, we found that there is a close relation between identity and authoritarianism in the work and that it occurs in different ways, from both the constitution of the government powers and the resistance of the characters.