A exegese narrativa de Julián Fuks em a ocupação

Abstract

The present work has as object of research the novel A Ocupação (2019), by Julián Fuks (1981). Exploring postmodern literary strategies and making use of sociopolitical themes frequently mentioned in contemporary times, Sebastián, an autodiegetic narrator, weaves what seems to constitute a literary discourse closely related to the pretensions of Decoloniality, which promotes fertile subjects in the scope of Cultural Studies. Going from collectivity to individuality, from protagonism to narrative distancing, from dramas as a writer to those experienced as an individual, and transiting between questioning the social absurdities of the environment in which he lives and the communicative and aesthetic limits of the literary genre in which he is inserted, the narrator seems to artistically embody what has been defended epistemologically by postcolonial theorists –such as Aníbal Quijano (2005; 2009), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2009), Thomas Bonnici (2005; 2009), Gayatri Spivak (1998) and Walter Mignolo (2003) –, so that the epistemological turn investigated by them configures the driving force of the object in question. Just remember, for example, that it is a self-fictional novel executed under the mentorship of Mia Couto, in an organization very close to that of anthropological field research: with recorded visits and interviews. Therefore, we aim to outline the dialogue between literary and artistic aspects, and the decolonial proposal, analyzing how the Fuksian work’s aesthetics is capable of materializing the expression of that discourse. For this, we verify the construction of the narrator who is in search of an accurate style in the process of consolidation, as well as the thread that sustains the three layers, hoping, with this, to propose an interpretative reading of the tripartite plot and the title, which seems to engender a great allegorical metaphor that permeates the entire work. We found, beforehand, a close dialogue between the theories of postmodernity, self-fictionality and decoloniality, with A Ocupação being the productive point of conciliation. We believe that they are great the contributions of the novel in the two axes that constitute it: art and the production of knowledge, both of which in favor of a more distanced discourse from the predominantly Eurocentric traditional models.