Traços da periferia: política e performance em produções literárias marginais-periféricas contemporâneas

Abstract

This thesis studies the articulation between writing and performance policies in contemporary marginal-peripheral literary productions in Brazil, in order to investigate to what extent these concepts govern the writing of texts, their circulation and consumption, and which strategies of political agency are produced by the authors delimited in this study, in their activities of a collective nature. In this context, we discuss the constitution of the movement of contemporary marginal literature of the periphery writers. For this, the expressions marginal literature, peripheral literature and divergent literature are analyzed, in order to justify the adoption of the term marginal-peripheral literature in the research. It is also discussed whether this production can be considered a post-autonomous literature, supported by the proposition of post-autonomy as a reading regime focused not only on the literary phenomenon but also repositioning the look in search of new critical procedures that surpass the literary in peripheral context. Next, we analyze the periphery writers’ art politicization, under different conceptual approaches, among them the politics of art as the interweaving of heterogeneous logics: the logic of the forms of aesthetic experience; the logic of fictional work; and the logic of metapolitical strategies. Thus, to analyze the logic of the forms of aesthetic experience and of the fictional work, the research is based on the relationship between performance and writing, considering the authors' writing as performative. Finally, to study the logic of metapolitical strategies in this literary production, in association with the concept of agency, we investigate the aesthetic proposals of writers of marginal-peripheral literature as political performances and what strategies of political-cultural agency are produced by the authors delimited in this study, within a broad intellectual project that stimulates the production, consumption and circulation of cultural goods in peripheral spaces. In this context, this research selects literary productions of Allan Santos da Rosa, Dinha and Sacolinha, in view of the political, denunciatory and performative force of his works, as well as his literary practices based on (re) construction of collectivities. In the case of Allan Santos da Rosa, presented by Edições Toró; of Dinha, by the publisher Me Parió Revolução; and, finally, of Sacolinha, with the actions of the Cultural Literature Association in Brazil. The argument of the thesis is that all this configures strategies of political-cultural agency engendered by the authors, involving different contexts nuanced with the own experiences and of the collective ones that encompass each one, what strengthens the marginal-peripheral literature, causing it to circulate, provoking reflections and stimulating the permanent criticism of these artistic actions.