As teorias pós-coloniais e o hibridismo em José de Alencar

Abstract

The concern of literary criticism of the XIX century was to establish a homogeneous national identity project, based on similarity relations with the colonial model. Today, through the studies of post-colonial theories, we can venture critically with such restrictions and control of the presupposition already established aesthetically, which enables us to launch a new look for the Brazilian narratives, such as the book Iracema (1865), from José de Alencar. We propose a reflection on these dominant positions, which tend to exhaust the meaning of the literary work and provoke in the novel a dichotomous construction, of oppositions, related to its protagonists. Whereof the Derrida and Deleuze’s philosophy of deconstruction, and Homi Bhabha’s cultural studies, opens up the possibility of recognize and discuss the hybridism in Iracema, in a reinterpretation and resignification of the book and the characters.