Revista Decifrar

JEAN VALJEAN E FABIANO: UMA COMPARAÇÃO ENTRE PERSONAGENS PRINCIPAIS E ESPAÇO PRISIONAL PRESENTES NOS ROMANCES OS MISERÁVEIS (1862) E VIDAS SECAS (1938)

Marco Antônio Nunes Júnior — 2025-09-25

A personagem e o espaço configuram-se como elementos essenciais na construção de narrativas e se estabelecem, desse modo, como opções de análise para pesquisas que objetivem um aprofundamento na construção de romances e de seus desdobramentos. O presente artigo – recorte da monografia intitulada Fabiano e Jean Valjean: entre os espaços das vidas miseráveis (2024) – busca apresentar uma comparação entre esses elementos - as personagens e os espaços – presentes nos romances Os miseráveis (1862), de Victor Hugo e Vidas secas (1938), de Graciliano Ramos. As personagens que aqui tomamos como principais – Jean Valjean, em Os miseráveis e Fabiano, em Vidas secas – se mostram como Forster (1974) nos ensina, redondas ao apresentarem riqueza psicologia e ao surpreenderem os leitores com suas ações ao longo das narrativas. Ademais, os espaços que ambas as personagens permeiam lhes são essenciais em suas jornadas; nos concentraremos no espaço prisional, o qual, tanto Jean Valjean quanto Fabiano transitam ao serem presos – se trata de contextos diferentes que, no entanto, podem gerar semelhantes consequências. Foucault (2009) reflete sobre o que chama de espaços outros da sociedade – as heterotopias. Em suas reflexões, as prisões aparecem; são classificadas como heterotopias de desvio, ou seja, são lugares em que aqueles marginalizados pela sociedade, os que não se adequam aos padrões estabelecidos por ela, são sujeitados. Nos romances, perceberemos que após a passagem pelo espaço prisional, Jean Valjean e Fabiano transformam-se em certa medida ao despertarem em si receio em relação à sociedade ou ao reforçarem sentimentos já existentes.

The resistance of Indigenous women in the decolonial poetics of Eva Potiguara

Ana Clara de Sena Souza — 2025-09-29

This article seeks to understand how the work Abyayala Mebyra Nhe'engara: Cânticos de uma Filha da Terra (2022), by Eva Potiguara, articulates ancestry, gender, and territory from a decolonial feminist perspective. The analysis focuses on poems that explore the connection between Indigenous women and natural elements — Fire, Earth, Waters, and Wind — understood as symbolic poles that oscillate between resistance and cultural re-signification. This is a descriptive-analytical study, grounded in an intersectional critical reading and in dialogue with decolonial thinkers such as Eva Potiguara, Eliane Potiguara, Elisa Pankararu, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Françoise Vergès, Angela Davis, María Lugones, among others. Potiguara’s literature emerges as a mediator of historical and contemporary voices, shaping a poetic territory where political and spiritual dimensions coexist. Through a poetics of resistance, symbolic territories are constructed that intertwine bodies, memories, and cultures, revealing an agenda that challenges colonial and patriarchal structures. This study thus highlights Indigenous literature as a crucial tool in the struggle for recognition and social justice, reinforcing the centrality of Indigenous women in the defense of their communities and ancestral knowledge.

DICTATORSHIP AND RESENTMENT

Gabriely Rosa Caetano — 2025-09-26

This study aims to analyze how resentment towards dictatorial regimes in Latin America, particularly the Brazilian military dictatorship, is presented in the autobiographies Rabo de foguete: os anos de exílio by Ferreira Gullar (2008) and Ainda estou aqui by Marcelo Rubens Paiva (2015). The research was based on a qualitative bibliographic approach. The theoretical framework included: the definition of resentment as presented by Ansart (2004); Lejeune's (2008) studies on the autobiography genre; Eurídice Figueiredo's research (as cited in Licarião, 2018) on literature as an archive of the Brazilian military dictatorship; and the contributions of authors such as Le Goff (1996), Pollak (1989), Seixas (2004), and Halbwachs (2006, as cited in Weber; Pereira, 2010) on literature, history, and memory. The analysis was divided into two categories: fear as a source of resentment in victims of repression, and resentment expressed by their family members. The results revealed that these autobiographical accounts uncover traces of resentment, which stem from feelings such as fear, anger, sadness, bitterness, and a sense of injustice, among others. Finally, the study concludes that both the direct victims of repression, such as Ferreira Gullar and Rubens Beyrodt Paiva, as well as their family members and friends, are affected, as demonstrated in the experience of Marcelo Rubens Paiva.

THE POOR, INTELLECTUALS AND POSSIBLE CONSCIOUSNESS

Felipe Chaves Gonçalves Pinto — 2025-09-24

The text seeks to discuss the early epistemic relationship in the Brazilian capitalist class society between the compassionate intellectual and the poor subject in whom the former is interested. It begins by contextualizing what is defined as “poor” in class society to examine the influence exerted by an intellectual and/or economic elite on the shifts in the term’s meaning. The argument posits that an underlying epistemic framework persists across the redefinitions imposed on the poor by this elite. This implies a systemic and covert continuity (supposed to be overcome) in the parameters through which the poor are interpreted and addressed by the intellectual and/or economic elite. As an analytical resource, the works of Euclides da Cunha and João do Rio are explored, providing broader insights into the hegemonic trends in the relationship between the intellectual and the poor (Cunha focusing on the rural poor and João do Rio on the urban poor). Subsequently, it is highlighted that even though intellectuals often engage compassionately with the poor, a “possible consciousness” emerges, which, despite their goodwill, anchors these movements to the hegemonic epistemic framework governing the issue. Thus, the article reflects on this complex relationship between the compassionate intellectual and the poor, raising critical considerations.

PAPER LANDSCAPES

Thais Stefhani de Oliveira Leal — 2025-08-06

The article analyzes 19th century travel accounts and how these texts reflect the Eurocentric and colonial view of Brazil. The study investigates how European travelers, in describing the fauna, flora and indigenous peoples, often perpetuated a vision of subordination and exoticism in relation to the “other”. The research uses a critical method of literary analysis, which combines content analysis of the texts with a theoretical approach based on authors such as Michel Foucault, Edward Said and Mary Louise Pratt. Foucault is used to understand the dynamics of power and knowledge present in the accounts, while Said and Pratt contribute to the analysis of the concept of “orientalism” and “contact zones”, exploring how relations of power and identity are manifested in travel narratives. Agassiz's work, although important for science, does not escape a colonizing gaze, especially as it approaches indigenous people and Brazilian nature from a perspective that frames them within European categories. The analysis suggests that these accounts, as well as contributing to the advancement of scientific knowledge, also play a role in the construction of a narrative of cultural and racial domination. The article proposes a critical reading of these texts, highlighting the tensions between the search for knowledge and the practices of control and subordination.

RITO DE MAR-GEM ENTRE O TEMPO, MEMÓRIA E IDENTIDADE EM ANA PIZARRO E MILTON HATOUM: AMAZÔNIA, FRATURA E PULSÃO DO MUNDO

Rodrigo Felipe Veloso — 2025-08-06

Trata-se de um estudo dos contos “Um oriental na vastidão” e “A casa ilhada”, da obra A cidade ilhada, de Milton Hatoum, em diálogo com o viés crítico de Ana Pizarro sobre a identidade cultural da Amazônia no espaço fragmentado da América Latina e da teoria antropológica (ritos de passagem), em especial o rito de margem, liminar do processo ritual e suas relações míticas e simbólicas na constituição do tempo, memória e identidade das personagens Kazuki Kurokawa e Lavedan, indivíduos que vivem experiências ritualísticas, se movimentam no espaço-tempo ficcional e têm suas histórias contadas num ligação íntima e integrada à natureza amazônica. Nesse sentido, o elemento água regula o curso da vida individual e social. Assim, utilizam-se os autores: Ana Pizarro (2012; 2021), Arnold Van Gennep (2011), Gaston Bachelard (1974; 1998), dentre outros.