Considerações estéticas e políticas na obra de Lima Barreto: a emergência de um contexto biopolítico

The present work aims to analyze the political and aesthetic relationship in the work of Lima Barreto, more specifically in the works O cemetery dos Vivos, Diário intimate and Diário do hospício. To this end, some nuclei are strategically activated to think about this relationship, such as language, representation, the notion of militant literature, narrative space and the concept of Biopower and biopolitics developed by Michael Foucault. Firstly, the methodological form is constructed and how it can play an important and strategic role in our analysis. The genealogy of powers aims to reflect on the concept of history, the problem of knowledge and truth. The problematization of the literary in Lima Barreto's work is perhaps the starting and ending point of this work. The literary work and criticism produced by the author corroborate a new perspective on the literary concept. By pointing to a perspective of militant and black literature, the author constructs a problematization of the conception of Brazilian literature; This conception that Regina Dalcastagnè demonstrates was never plural, but a homogeneous conception, converted into a unity that never corresponded with diversity, difference and plurality. In theory, the conception of literature is linked to a vision of the world and society. If for Lukács the literature of the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century was essentially bourgeois, Lima Barreto's literary work and theoretical understanding go in the opposite direction of this status quo. This, perhaps, is the great difference of Barrete literature. By promoting an idea of art that is in line with life, with a humanist and alterity purpose. Briefly, the work points to the idea that in addition to the author contributing to a more real concept of Brazilian literature, he, through some elements of narrative theory: space, time, characters, revolutionizes narrative theory in the sense of appropriate this previously bourgeois space. In this sense, it becomes almost impossible to carry out a critical analysis of his work and Brazilian literature as a whole, without problematizing the aesthetic and political relationships involved in literature.

Grantor dc:publisher

Universidade federal da Bahia

Year dc:date.issued

2024

Author dc:creator

• Bispo, Lenon Sampaio

• Lima Barreto
• O cemitério dos vivos
• Biopolítica
• Representação
• Literatura militante

Statement dc:rights

• Acesso Aberto

Language dc:language

por

Repository record dc:identifier.uri

https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/41441

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repositorio.ufba.br:ri/41441