Trauma, memória e história em A Mercy, de Tony Morrison
AUTOR(ES)
Vivian Nickel
FONTE
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2012
RESUMO
Toni Morrison¿s latest novel A Mercy (2008), evokes the past of peoples that were historically confined to the margins of the American culture. Morrison goes back to the period of the Anglo-Saxon colonization in the 17th century to tell the story of Florens, who is offered by her mother as the payment of a debt by the plantation owner. Florens¿ story is narrated from the point of view of trauma, an aspect that highliths Toni Morrison¿s commitment to a political-aesthetical project to recover the history of racial relations in the United States from an inner perspective. This thesis shows how Morrison¿s text allows for a different encounter with a historically silenced past, focusing on the interiority of historical experience ¿ i.e., on history as a trauma. Through multiple textual strategies, Morrison¿s novel mobilize not only the reader¿s critical perception but transform the act of reading into a living experience, one that can reveal the power of literature to change human relations.
ASSUNTO(S)
identidade memória literária raça trauma morrison, toni, 1931-, a mercy memory literatura afro-americana history literatura norte-americana cultura norte-americana race colonização inglesa narrative relações raciais romance crítica literária estudos culturais
