Subalternidade e precariedade em Vidas secas, de Graciliano Ramos

Abstract

Subalternity and prearity in Vidas secas, by Graciliano Ramos is a study that investigates the characters Fabiano, sinha Vitória, the ‗younger boy‘ and ‗the older boy‘ under contemporary perspectives, and refuses readings who treat them as animalized subjects. The weight of the many forms of violence to which these characters were subjected make them subjects of the trauma here investigated. Firstly, we will read the novel under the perspective of Walter Benjamin (1987) about the losers in history. Judith Butler (2019) made me reflect on the precarious lives who still roam around Brazil today. Fiction and social reflections are approximate. Ramos‘s characters are seen as archetypes from the peripheral layers of Brazil, individuals who wander through spaces of oppression. The focus on reflection on Fabiano's humanity and family deviates from its reduction to animalized subjects, to understand the contradictions of a modernizing project that permeates the dominant discourse, but which almost always results in the deprivation of rights, violations and pains of the subordinates.