Como se Deus estivesse cuspindo na gente: o estigma da exclusão em Amanhã, numa boa

Abstract

We propose herein an analysis of the protagonist of the French novel Amanhã, numa Boa (GUÈNE, 2006), who descends from Moroccans, as to identify how she rewrites the position of the marginalised other before the multiculturalist central discourses. Therefore, we test and evince the hypothesis that this narrative moves in the contrary direction of the romanticisation, assimilation, and silencing of peripheral epistemes represented and rearticulated by this character. Deploying Žižek’s (2016) reflections, we sketch a portrait of the exclusion stigma that the (im)migrant suffers. Veiled by inclusive discourses, multicultural approaches and new contemporary space disguised as an elusive socio-political hybridity, xenophobia, racism, sexism and incomprehension are still live and kicking. The novel, where manifold prejudices suffered by the character – given her gender, language, and migrant condition – pullulate, manifest the constitutive problem of postmodern macro cosmopolitanism – that is, of the idea of a subject with no chains or identity frontiers, of the so called fluid identity.