POÉTICAS ANTI-ANONIMATO

O TEXTO LITERÁRIO E OS EXCLUÍDOS DA HISTÓRIA OFICIAL

Abstract

Managed by dominant ideologies, official historiography, for a long time, highlighted certain subjects and events, neglecting, to the same extent, many other elements fundamental to a more comprehensive understanding of History. This theoretical consensus, predominant among historians until the middle of the 20th century, easily breaks down out in face of the heterogeneous potential of the literary text, capable of, throughout the ages, traversing these dominant discourses, giving notoriety and, not infrequently, protagonism to the various subjects and characters less favored by this historiographical hyperfocus. Given such possibilities, this article will seek to discuss, in light of the contributions of Jean-Claude Schmitt (1998), Alfredo Bosi (2015) and Leyla Perrone-Moisés (2016), to what extent poetry can contribute (and does contribute) to a more totalizing apprehension of the historical past, revealing the situations, dilemmas and anxieties of those who, from some ideological perspective, were ignored, silenced and, often, murdered. Among the various works highlighted, our analysis will focus on Romanceiro da Inconfidência (2015), by Cecília Meireles, and Os cus de Judas (2010), by Antônio Lobo Antunes, in order to elucidate the role of literature in the face of official discourses about the past and those excluded by official historiography.