The historical fiction of Eliana Alves Cruz: necropower, violence, coloniality of the body, and infectious diseases
In this article, we aim to analyze the representations of necropower, violence, coloniality of the body, and infectious diseases (such as cholera, yellow fever, smallpox and maculo), recurrent in the process of enslavement of black people. We will investigate such themes by studying the historical...
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| author | Francis Williams Brito da Conceição Renan Cabral Paulino |
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In this article, we aim to analyze the representations of necropower, violence, coloniality of the body, and infectious diseases (such as cholera, yellow fever, smallpox and maculo), recurrent in the process of enslavement of black people. We will investigate such themes by studying the historical fiction novels Água de barrela (2018), Crime do cais do Valongo (2018a), and Nada digo de ti, que em ti não Veja (2020), written by Eliana Alves Cruz. Therefore, starting from the discussions on the various forms of coloniality, violence, and barbarism evidenced in theorists such as Agamben (2002), Bento (2018), Césaire (2020), Dalcastagnè (2008), Lugones (2019), among others, we will observe the ways in which capitalism, European colonization and modern slavery, using necropolitics, led subalternized bodies to death through normalization and regulation, by denying to these bodies basic conditions of existence, such as food, hygiene, decent work, healthcare and rest. By the end of the research, we discovered that the novels problematize and denounce the colonial wound that slavery inflicted on black people, placing them in inhumane situations both of displacement, and in the environments of exploitation.
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| spelling | doaj.art-5130fc7ac4a84ca693f5efdf6e537f282024-01-24T13:54:26ZengAssociação Internacional de LusitanistasVeredas2183-816X2022-09-013710.24261/2183-816x0437The historical fiction of Eliana Alves Cruz: necropower, violence, coloniality of the body, and infectious diseasesFrancis Williams Brito da ConceiçãoRenan Cabral Paulino In this article, we aim to analyze the representations of necropower, violence, coloniality of the body, and infectious diseases (such as cholera, yellow fever, smallpox and maculo), recurrent in the process of enslavement of black people. We will investigate such themes by studying the historical fiction novels Água de barrela (2018), Crime do cais do Valongo (2018a), and Nada digo de ti, que em ti não Veja (2020), written by Eliana Alves Cruz. Therefore, starting from the discussions on the various forms of coloniality, violence, and barbarism evidenced in theorists such as Agamben (2002), Bento (2018), Césaire (2020), Dalcastagnè (2008), Lugones (2019), among others, we will observe the ways in which capitalism, European colonization and modern slavery, using necropolitics, led subalternized bodies to death through normalization and regulation, by denying to these bodies basic conditions of existence, such as food, hygiene, decent work, healthcare and rest. By the end of the research, we discovered that the novels problematize and denounce the colonial wound that slavery inflicted on black people, placing them in inhumane situations both of displacement, and in the environments of exploitation. https://revistaveredas.org/index.php/ver/article/view/833historical fictionnecropowerviolencecoloniality of the bodyinfectious diseases |
| spellingShingle | Francis Williams Brito da Conceição Renan Cabral Paulino The historical fiction of Eliana Alves Cruz: necropower, violence, coloniality of the body, and infectious diseases Veredas historical fiction necropower violence coloniality of the body infectious diseases |
| title | The historical fiction of Eliana Alves Cruz: necropower, violence, coloniality of the body, and infectious diseases |
| title_full | The historical fiction of Eliana Alves Cruz: necropower, violence, coloniality of the body, and infectious diseases |
| title_fullStr | The historical fiction of Eliana Alves Cruz: necropower, violence, coloniality of the body, and infectious diseases |
| title_full_unstemmed | The historical fiction of Eliana Alves Cruz: necropower, violence, coloniality of the body, and infectious diseases |
| title_short | The historical fiction of Eliana Alves Cruz: necropower, violence, coloniality of the body, and infectious diseases |
| title_sort | historical fiction of eliana alves cruz necropower violence coloniality of the body and infectious diseases |
| topic | historical fiction necropower violence coloniality of the body infectious diseases |
| url | https://revistaveredas.org/index.php/ver/article/view/833 |
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