O neobarroco em Tebas do meu coração, de Nélida Piñon: uma forma de representar a América mestiça

Abstract

This dissertation develops its questions from two works from Nélida Píñon: the novel Tebas do meu coração (1974) and the critical work Presumível coração da América (2002). The author turns to the (neo)baroque resources in order to disconstruct the conventional world representation and to widen the meaning of the work. According to our reading, the (neo)baroque discourse can be utilized as a way to reflect (about) the mestiza formation of Latin America, raising and discussing questions that involve its history, its memory and its identity. We still work with the utopia idea, because we read in the work the tentative of elaboration of a utopian project, which debates the old utopian-civilizing project, based on the alterity domination and repression. From theoretical categories, like utopias, counter-utopia, no-place and heterotopia, we establish a counterpoint to the European Utopia. We utilize the heterotopia as a valid notion to Latin America because it is based on new concepts like decentrality, negotiation and openness, which discuss old paradigms. The paper also reflects about the complex relation between Literature and subalternity and about the inclusive exercise of (neo)baroque literature that represents the subaltern as alterity and presents the mestiza reason as a way to think and produce literature and theory.