Campbell, P. (2011) Subjetividade processual pós-colonial em Os Sertões do Oficina (Processual postcolonial subjectivity in the Oficina’s Os Sertões). Repertório: Teatro & Dança. 14(16), pp. 70-93. 2175-8131.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Abstract: | The aim of this article is to explore how Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s concept of the speechless subaltern challenges/is challenged by the Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona’s performance Os Sertões (2002-2007). Whilst Spivak’s Marxist-inspired delineation of the subaltern locks her in a binary embrace with the privileged Subject of Europe, Os Sertões presents us with a tripartite, interrelated set of subject-effects in which the Trans-Man (the militant post-colonial artist) transcends his condition as Man (the castrated subject of neocolonialism), by fusing his discourse with the rhythmic ebullience of the Pre-Man (the subaltern substratum of Brazilian society). The Oficina articulate this conflictual, hybrid, processual subjectivity on stage by returning to the primal scene of Brazil’s violent conception, revealing a differant trope potentially articulating subjectivity and representability in Brazil; rape-as-grammè. It is this strand of textual DNA, this eternal return of sexual, disciplinary and epistemic violence, which is shown to shape Brazilian subjectivity to the present day. However, by anthropofagically co-opting this tragic heritage on stage by emphasising the différance of the subaltern cultural manifestations and praise practice always already spacing the (post) colonial text, the company subvert a historic narrative of loss and privation, transforming it into a rhythmic and libidinal rite of passage whose vitality transcends the limits of phallogocentrism. |
| Subjects: |
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater > PN2041 Performance studies P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater > PN2219.3 Special regions or countries > PN2445 South America > PN2471 Brazil |
| Creators: | Campbell, Patrick |
| Funders or Sponsors: | Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - "National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development" |
| Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: | Faculties > Faculty of Arts, Science & Technology > Journalism, Media & Performance |
| Date: | June 2011 |
| Date Type: | Publication |
| Page Range: | pp. 70-93 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Repertório: Teatro & Dança |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Number: | 16 |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| ISSN: | 2175-8131 |
| Status: | Published / Disseminated |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/4483 |
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