Necronarrativas em três romances contemporâneos brasileiros

Abstract

This thesis deals with the occurrence of necronarratives in Contemporary Brazilian Literature from the novels Pssica (2015), by Edyr Augusto; Enterre seus mortos (2018), by Ana Paula Maia and A Morte e o Meteoro (2019) by Joca Reiners Terron. The objective is to analyze, from an analytical-comparative approach, how the narratives fictionalize the necropolitical processes of Brazilian society in the last five years. The research proposes the analysis of the novels from three critical axes: the first corresponds to the expendable bodies, which will be based on the concepts of naked life, by Giorgio Agamben (2002) and precarious life, by Judith Butler (2019); the second, concerns the predatory presence of "Gore" businesses, which is based on the studies on "Gore" Capitalism, by Sayak Valencia (2010) and, finally, the third, which relates to the recurrence of the image of the undead or zombie, having as its reading key the studies of Deleuze and Guattari (2010) and Leo Barros (2020). The study focuses on the thematic analysis of the works, despite making brief incursions into other narrative elements. It is concluded that the novels studied are part of a structuring force of Romanesque composition, which aesthetically represents the Brazilian necropolitical processes, which I called necronarrative. Therefore, it is understood that the works analyzed, are part of an excerpt from the Brazilian novel that is concerned with aesthetically problematizing life starting from the necropolitics (MBEMBE, 2018). The characterization of necronarratives occurs, above all, by the representations of the precariousness of contemporary bodies; the emergence of criminal markets that flourish in groups subjected to deadly conditions and the initiation of symbolic processes of social zombification. It is, however, a study that identifies a trend and not a generalization.