[pt] O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar as manifestações literárias produzidas pelos autores pertencentes à Literatura Marginal, buscando compreender as principais características textuais e políticas deste movimento. Nessa perspectiva, os produtos discursivos marginais serão vistos como manifestações contra-hegemônicas, resultantes de um esforço em produzir uma imagem própria sobre a vivência marginalizada, silenciando, assim, qualquer outro discurso produzido fora do espaço periférico. Para tanto, foi utilizado um arcabouço teórico que possibilita ler as formas de agenciamento político produzidas por este grupo. Além do exame do objeto literário, é realizada uma aproximação destas narrativas com o movimento Hip-Hop, mais precisamente com o RAP, colocando em relevo as muitas semelhanças quanto à estrutura textual das formas poéticas e as formas de veiculação de um discurso que almeja a conscientização dos leitores/ouvintes. Por se tratar de uma experiência literária pouco comum, a presença de escritores marginais em nossa série literária também apresenta novos questionamentos sobre a função e o papel do intelectual. Se outrora era o intelectual quem desempenhava a função de portavoz destes grupos, agora são os próprios marginais que rompem com a passiva posição de objeto e passam a figurar como sujeitos. Ao lançar um olhar crítico sobre esta disputa discursiva é possível identificar as tensões que o movimento de autores periféricos inaugura. / [en] The present study aims to analyze the literary work of authors who are part of the Literatura Marginal (Literature from the Outside) as a way to understand the chief aspects of this movement’s writing style as well as its main political characteristics. From this perspective, the productions of the periferia discourse will be understood as counter-hegemonic manifestations that originate from an effort to produce a specific view that reflects the marginalized experience, thus silencing any other discourse produced outside of the periferia space. To this end, we developed a theoretical outline that brings an understanding of the kinds of political engagement produced by this group. In addition to examining the literary product itself, this study considers the parallels between this type of narrative and the Hip-Hop movement, more specifically Rap, highlighting the many similarities between them as they relate to the structure of the writing and the way the discourse is disseminated, aiming at the conscientization of readers/listeners. Because this relates to an uncommon literary experience, the presence of periferia writers in our literary series also raises new questions about the role of the intellectual. If before it was the intellectual who acted as the spokesperson for these writers, now the outsiders themselves break with the passive role of objects and claim their place as protagonists. In bringing a critical view to this debate it is possible to identify the tensions that the periferia authors bring to this discussion.

[pt] A tese apresentada neste trabalho direciona-se por meio da análise de quatro obras da chamada literatura marginal ou periférica, mais especificamente das obras dos autores Ferréz, Marcelino Freire, Rodrigo Ciríaco e Allan da Rosa. Tem-se por foco a construção de um olhar que privilegie o diálogo que estas obras mantêm com duas noções centrais, a de múltiplas temporalidades modernas do contemporâneo, que tem por principal característica a variedade de representações artísticas que produzem formas outras de vivência da modernidade, analisada a partir de autores como Homi Bhabha, Nestor Garcia Canclini, Paul Gilroy e Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht; e a noção de dano, formulada por Jaques Rancierè, cuja abordagem, para o trabalho que apresentamos, será necessária no exame das aproximações que as escolhas estéticas dos autores abordados têm com o campo político. Ao utilizarmos essas noções, defendemos que as obras, por advirem de um lugar não tradicional na produção cultural brasileira, geram novas perspectivas que se aproximam e se afastam do habitus literário no Brasil. Além disso, algumas reflexões sobre as principais contribuições acadêmicas para a análise do cenário montado pela literatura marginal são feitas no intuito de colaborar com futuros estudiosos que queiram abordar o tema. Procura-se, assim, encontrar as melhores ferramentas e abordagens da poética marginal contemporânea como produtora de sentido, levando-se em consideração sua origem social e como esta propõe novos enfoques para a tradição literária nacional. / [en] This dissertation analyzes four pieces of the so called literatura marginal or periférica, namely the works of authors Ferréz, Marcelino Freire, Rodrigo Ciríaco and Allan da Rosa. It focuses on the construction of a perspective that privileges the dialogue these works establish with two key notions: the multiple modern temporalities of the contemporaneity, which are characterized mainly by the variety of artistic representations that produce other forms of experiencing modernity - analyzed with the help of authors such as Homi Bhabha, Néstor García Canclini, Paul Gilroy e Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -, and the notion of the wrong, as formulated by Jacques Rancière, whose approach will be helpful to understand the approximations that the aesthetic choices of the four authors have with the political realm. The wrong consists in the emergence of an unexpected identity-based collectivity within the community, altering the distribution of the sensible, forcing the community to redo its sites of production and of knowledge. By borrowing such notions, we defend that, since these works come from an untraditional place within Brazilian cultural production, they generate new perspectives that both approach and distance themselves from the literary habitus in Brazil, leading to a reevaluation of the contemporary Brazilian literary scene and even of the literary scenes of the past. Moreover, a couple of reflections on the main academic contributions for the analysis of the landscape designed by the literatura marginal are made with the intention to help future researchers willing to study the theme. Therefore, we have aimed to find the best tools and approaches to handle the contemporary marginal poetics as meaning-producing, taking into consideration its social origin and how it proposes new approaches to the literary national tradition.

[pt] A dissertação procura mapear a cultura de favela que se expandiu na década de 90, sondando as manifestações artísticas produzidas nas favelas. Através de obras de três autores, Carolina de Jesus, Paulo Lins e Luiz Paulo Corrêa e Castro, desenvolve o conceito de literatura de favela, identificando as tipologias recorrentes de favelainferno e favela-idílio na produção literária que dialoga com a temática da favela. / [en] The dissertation maps the culture of the favelas, greatly expanded during the 90´s, focusing on their artistic manifestations. Through the works of three authors, Carolina de Jesus, Paulo Lins and Luiz Paulo Corrêa e Castro, we explore the concept of favela literature and identify a binary typology (favela-inferno / favela-idílio) in the literary production that dialogues with the favela.

The U.S. Southwest is a semi-arid region affected by numerous environmental problems. Chicana/o communities have been directly affected by such problems, especially ever since the region was annexed from Mexico by the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. From this moment onwards they lost their environmental sovereignty, mostly through their dispossession of the natural resources.   This environmental humanities dissertation focuses on the ethics, politics, and practices around water (management), for water is a key natural resource and a central element of Chicana/o cultural identity. It explores the ways in which Chicana/o culture is interconnected with environmental practices and sites in subaltern literary works about the Chicana/o experience. It investigates how the hegemonic Anglo-American environmental, political, and economic practices have challenged and undermined Chicana/o culture, identity, and wellbeing, and how this has been addressed in fiction; and it questions whether establishing such a connection adds any useful insights to the larger discussion on the global socio-environmental crisis. This dissertation also analyzes the writer activist character of the subaltern narratives of the corpus, with attention to the relevance of rhetoric in subverting and constructing environmental discourses and ethics.   By examining regional and border narratives, as well as fiction and non-fiction narratives about the socio-environmental struggles of other ethnic minorities in the Southwest and in other parts of the world, this dissertation puts literature about the Chicana/o experience in a regional, national, and transnational context. It moreover explores the pivotal role of literature in reclaiming environmental sovereignty, in asserting cultural identities, and in countering the environmental crisis by imagining alternative managerial practices and socio-environmental relations, as much as in challenging cultural hegemonies. / <p>QC 20170508</p>