Marginal ou anormal? Contribuição da literatura de Antônio Fraga, Carolina de Jesus e Maura Lopes Cançado para outro entendimento da marginalidade

Abstract

This work seeks, through a study of literature linking social and critical thinking, to explore the relationships between the processes of marginalization and some literary intellective about alternative notions of marginality and abnormality. His literary corpus includes three books of Brazilian writers, that, plus they have not succeeded in inserting in what could be understood as a national canon, stand out even in the theme of his works, which, in themselves, bring the problem of marginalization. Thus, Desabrigo, of Antonio Fraga, Quarto de despejo, of Carolina de Jesus, and Hospício é Deus, of Maura Lopes Cançado are addressed from the reflections developed especially by Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem about the strategies of production of abnormal, revealing how marginalization, rather than being a consequence of an inadequate pre-existing rules, can indeed be the source of production of these rules. Seeking value both convergences, as the possible distinctions in the works of these three writers, the work seeks to move away from a perspective that would seize his works as isolated and discredited productions, to find in them the power of affirmation of a literary discourse that both presented as complaint and defense, as as a work of literary expression and therefore of social expression.