Between reality and astonishment

Ignácio de Loyola Brandão's literary dystopias

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https://doi.org/10.34019/2236-8191.2020.v5.32705

Abstract

Based on the recognition of the significant popularity acquired by dystopian narratives, especially when within contexts of political and social crises such as the current, this article aims to shed  light on the understanding of the relationships that are established between dystopian imagination and the socio-historical reality in that  it takes place. Therefore, we observe as literary dystopias of the Brazilian writer Ignácio de Loyola Brandão in his radicalization of aspects of the author's own historical world. The argument is that the fears and astonishments that populate the social imaginary of a time, in a particular society, works as a kind of reference for the fictional dystopian effectuation, transforming, in the universe of fiction, society's own characteristics through the caricature of its elements and the hyperbolization of its mechanisms and dynamics. Dystopias thus formulate a singular critique of its historical present.

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Author Biographies

Fernanda Faria, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Mestra e doutoranda em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal da Bahia, desenvolvendo pesquisa como o tema “Assombros do imaginário nacional: a distopia literária brasileira de Ignácio de Loyola Brandão”. Atua como professora da Rede Municipal de Educação de Salvador e membro do Grupo de Pesquisa Representações Sociais: Arte, Ciência e Ideologia, em atividade no NUCLEART – Núcleo de Estudos em Sociologia da Arte (FFCH/UFBA). E-mail: fernandacsfaria@gmail.com

Lucas Catalan, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Mestre e doutorando em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal da Bahia, desenvolvendo pesquisa com o tema “Ficção científica e distopia no cinema: pode o futuro antecipar o presente?”. Atua como membro do Grupo de Pesquisa Representações Sociais: Arte, Ciência e Ideologia, em atividade no NUCLEART – Núcleo de Estudos em Sociologia da Arte (FFCH/UFBA). E-mail: lucatalan@hotmail.com  

Published

2021-04-15