Pobres, Nômades e Incivilizáveis: Potência e criação de novos modos de vida

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2006

RESUMO

The wide variety of classification concepts used to characterize the poor has been accompanied by a rationale that admonishes them, idealizes them or execrates them. Beyond linking poverty to material and social destitution, its most apparent form of manifestation relates to a contemptible situation that is engendered by a moral universe where people are standardized, as a means to belittle the many dimensions of life of the so-called poor. This is how poverty, as a driving force, soars and spills over on to talks, settings and subjectivities, thus identifying itself with a vast set of practices that conforms to its frames, designations and recreations that are inherent to subalternity. The present study aims to deconstruct the powerlessness of the poor and highlights the instance of domination to which they are subjected by discussing the legitimacy of the moral construct that shapes and defines the configuration of the poor. It attempts to dessentialize the issue of poverty and the poor as a machination intended to inflict suffering, pity and submission to focus on the exhaustion of civility standards and the need to create new modes of life. By framing the possibility of the emergence of a new ethical-political subject, this study centers on the power of the arts, especially cinema and literature, to analyze the following characters: Charles Chaplins Tramp; the Brazilian mulatto beauty, Gabriela, taken from Jorge Amados book of the same name and Macabéa, the female migrant from Northeastern Brazil created by writer Clarice Lispector. These three characters reveal the strength of the poor and are a path to different forms of resistance and creation that develop into new ways of thinking, feeling and experiencing the world under a positive and creative perspective

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pobres pobreza na arte poor pobres na arte resistance and creation vontade de potência resistência e criação sujeito ético-político pobres will to power pobreza servico social ethical-political subject

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