A desagregação da personagem e o espaço narrativo em Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos e O trabalho sujo dos outros, de Ana Paula Maia

Abstract

Recent Brazilian literary production has been characterized by the approach to the theme of urban violence, translated from the articulation of socio-historical perspectives, which are manifested in aesthetic productions. Part of the specialized critic has considered this tendency to be a mere spectacularization of the theme, while another sees it as representing aspects of a reality, which aims to proclaim discouragement in the face of the country's situation. When problematizing these positions, the article analyzes the narratives Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos and O trabalho sujo dos outros, by Ana Paula Maia and reflects about violence, identity and the formation of Brazilian society. To this purpose, the text dialogues with different areas, in an interdisciplinary perspective, emphasizing the need to approach different domains, or to eliminate their borders, when there is an intention to understand socio-cultural and aesthetic phenomena. When we take a look at violence in contemporary Brazil, such literary production challenges representations of identity and questions the historical process linked to this context, thus exercising the role of art as a questioning of society.