Silence and resistance in today's regionalism

Abstract

The article hypothesizes the idea that, in addition to the expulsion of peripheral and silenced identities in the historical course, we have, in regionalism, via aesthetic procedures such as the presentation of "local color" and silenced identities, forms of expression of Brazilian nationality that have amplified, in recent years, traces of social resistance. We selected as a specific corpus of  study the characters from the film Bacurau (2019), directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dorneles and from the narrative The sound of the jaguar's roar, by Micheliny Verunschi, focusing on Iñe-e, one of the central characters of the work.  Our research premise considers the presence of a reflexive tone that problematizes and reveals the complexity of identities cited in the literary tradition in Brazil. The main theoretical sources were the contributions of Andrade (1922); Bernd (2003), Hall (2003), Bhabha (1998); Candido (1976) and Holanda (1995), for discussions on concepts such as identity and culture, as well as Ávila (1975), Cascudo (2006) and Chiampi (1980), among others, to think about regionalism and its updating in the historical period that we have selected to set our reflections. With this study, we intend to contribute to the discussion of the complexity of literary representation as a factor of cultural approach, even if in stylistically distinct works such as those we selected as the corpus of the study.