Poética de vozes silenciadas, oralizadas na prosa de Marcelino Freire

Abstract

The starting point for this research is orality as it is found in the work by Marcelino Freire, and it aims at demonstrating how orality is dealt with in his writing. His short stories books Angu de sangue (2000), Balé ralé (2003), Contos negreiros (2005), and Rasif: mar que arrebenta (2008) constitute our corpus. The problematics brought forward by his short stories raises the need for understanding the relation between the writing and oral aspects of his texts. We have chosen to delve into this relation by observing his texts and their structure as it reveals a plural work in which the characters' voices carry with themselves the daily life's oral aspects, manifesting their outcry against social inequalities, prejudice and discrimination. Our next step is to look into the relation between the oral and writing aspects of Freire's work through the eyes of researchers who dedicated their studies to this theme, among them Paul Zumthor, Roger Chartier, Jaques Derrida, and Jean Derive. Our discussion goes on by demonstrating how Freire‟s writing develops a dialogue with orality, as he discusses the main themes present in the daily life in the biggest Brazilian cities, individualising crying voices historically silenced, bringing closer the different ways of speaking in Brazil and the genres of oral poetry in popular tradition. We understand that the use of such procedures in his writing suggests that his texts have been created with the aim of being spoken.