ALVES, A. P. M.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4195639238355016; ALVES, Ana Paula Macário.
Resumo:
The objective of this research is to analyze the postcolonial perspectives in the Brazilian novel
O Cortiço (1890), by Aluísio Azevedo. The importance of this research is justified since it is
still not common studies about the Brazilian literature at the light of the discussions proposed
by the critical-theoretical bias used here, especially about the corpus. In order to better
support the discussions, it will be used the works of Said (2003), Loomba (1998), Bonnici
(2000; 2005), for example, mainly because this research will show a historical timeline
involving the terms colonialism, imperialism, race, class and discourse, providing examples
such points and their representations in national and international literary works, in order to
establish meaningful parallels that show patters of similarities among voices of the metropolis
and those of the margin, both defending their causes, also taking into consideration aspects of
the feminist theories. This study will also show subversive works about the new space, that is,
Brazil, such as those of black people and Indians, works produced in Brazil, by Brazilian and
Portuguese writers, highlighting discoursive strategies to denounce the horrors imposed by the
invaders to the subjected people. Azevedo‟s novel possesses a subversive nature in the sense
that it criticizes the process of marginalization of peoples segregated at the margin of society
and the so called white race superiority, what resulted in several ways of prejudice. His novel
also questions the horrors of slavery.