REPRESENTATIONS OF INDIGENOUS FEMALE RESISTANCE IN O KARAÍBA, BY DANIEL MUNDURUKU

Abstract

This paper proposes to discuss the forms of indigenous female resistance brought by the characters Maraí and Potyra in O Karaíba (2010), by Daniel Munduruku, in dialogue with A mulher habitada (2000), by Gioconda Belli. The concept of resistance proposed here is read as the valorization of subjectivities and existences that have been historically invisible. Literary studies about resistance have been largely discussed based on the definition proposed in the text Narrativa e Resistência by Alfredo Bosi (1996), which consists of two dimensions: resistance as a theme and resistance as eminent writing. However, this analysis was based on the expansion of the meanings that the term resistance suggests, pointing the different forms of survival of marginalized social groups, because in the face of the unquestionable nullities of being crossed by the effects of colonialism, significant forms of resistance and reaffirmation of identities fractured by power relations. Therefore, the novel O Karaíba reverberates the history/memory of indigenous people in Brazil during the colonial period, erased by invaders. The research was with a bibliographical nature and is anchored in the light of the theories of Gayatri Spivak (2010); Halbawachs (1968); Benjamim (1989); Anilbal Quijano (2006); Alfredo Bosi (1996); Daniel Munduruku (2010), among others.