Perspectivas (pós) coloniais no romance Drácula.

Abstract

Postcolonial studies can be understood as a area of human sciences which analyzes the relations between the countries called Empire and their colonies; as a colonization affected these environments, and how literature portrays such issues. Thus, this paper analyze from a postcolonial perspective the Gothic novel Dracula (1897), written by the Irish writer Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912). The story that tells of the journey of the Englishman Jonathan Harker to the Carpathian region shows, for example, how European men and women from different parts of the continente were treated by the imperialista Victorian gaze. In this context, is analyzed the relations of opposition between England and Ireland; genderrelations, notably the role of woman; the writing context of the novel, Transylvania and England. This paper consists also of a bibliographical and analytical feature about the life and work of Stoker, applying to the chosen literary corpus, the postcolonial theories. For such na enterprise, we will use the theoretical suport of Bonnici (2000), Spivak (2010), Said (2011), Césaire (1978), among others.