Modernidade periférica brasileira: entre a literatura, a história e os estudos organizacionais

Abstract

The construction of research agendas in Organizational Studies excels in "conversations" that allow an organizational knowledge produced from various locations, readers and interpreters. Faced with new social contexts and alternative voices, this field broadens the debate on what would be the nature of the organization and the possibilities of approaching its plural phenomena, giving rise to a series of dissenting discourses and new contributions to the field. We find in Literature a valuable possibility of different conversations in the elaboration of valid knowledge in Organizational Studies. Our study focuses on socially organized ways of life and socially established relationships that emerge from Jorge Amado's literary discourse on Ilhéus at the beginning of the 20th Century. Amado's enunciation locus allows us to "learn from" and about the colonial difference manifested in the physical time and imaginary time of those local stories of Ilhéus. We take as a source of research two titles of his engaged literature on the cocoa cycle in Bahia: Terras do Sem Fim (1943) and São Jorge dos Ilhéus (1944), defined by Jorge Amado himself as proletarian literature. There is, therefore, a possibility of a sensitive translation of the real, with the centrality of relations of dependence and asymmetry between colonels and subaltern cocoa workers. We explore the context of the elaboration of Amadian discourse, the context of the ambience of his narratives, and we try not to lose sight of his discourse that is literary, but above all socio-historical in a decolonial perception of writing. We understand that literature configures a privileged space to reflect on the modern/colonial world system, its peculiarities, contradictions and implications in local stories and relationships. For us, the relationship between decolonial approaches and Critical Discourse Analysis is fruitful in the analysis and recontextualization of our research sources, since the perspective of both tangents power relations as disputes reflected in a declared or subtle way. The ACD aligns itself in this research to the studies of decoloniality, which are interested, in a subaltern perspective, in the promotion of dialogic conditions for a fractured enunciation. We are interested in discovering how modernity presents itself in peripheral contexts, and Jorge Amado's discourse thus emerges as a possibility of knowledge that refreshes and changes otherdominant forms of knowledge about that same space-time and reveals the dark side of us of Modernity in the Queen of the South: coloniality in the lands of the endless.