O muro como subterfúgio da hegemonia branca estadunidense: uma análise de Building the wall de Robert Schenkkan

• Autor(a) principal: Pinho, Ligia Lopes Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2023
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• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/20480
• topic: Teatro político; Hegemonia racial; Autoritarismo; Políticas anti-imigratórias; Schenkkan, Rober, 1953- – Crítica e interpretação; Schenkkan, Rober, 1953-. Building the wall; Hegemonia – Estados Unidos; Autoritarismo – Estados Unidos; Literatura e sociedade; Política e literatura; Imigrantes na literatura; Political Theater; Racial hegemony; Authoritarianism; Anti-immigration policies; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LINGUAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS

This study aims to discuss the relevance of political and engaged theater in American society through the analysis of the play Building the Wall, by Robert Schenkkan, to show that the North American anti-immigration laws created throughout history are directly linked to the idea of racial hegemony. The piece, written and released by the author before the first election of President Donald Trump, in 2016, was produced in a short period of time, possibly in an attempt to warn American society about the dangers of naturalizing the hate speech presented by - until that time presidential Trump. By questioning concepts such as identity and American citizenship, the dissertation will seek to trace the trajectory of the figure of the immigrant in order to try to understand how a country colonized by immigrants in its origin elevates their figure to the idea of an enemy to be fought through policies of its own government. In addition, the study will discuss the current trend of spectacularization of political figures, describing how Donald Trump uses theatrical tricks to capture crowds of supporters despite his questionable conduct in the political sphere. In addition, the importance of didactic and political theater for the American nation throughout its existence will be debated and reaffirmed, along with the intention of thinking about the importance of Robert Schenkkan for the transformation of xenophobic and nationalist American thought as well as his fight against Trump’s anti-democratic and authoritarian politics. For that, the fictional corpus of the analysis is composed of the works of Robert Schenkkan, having as main text the play Building the Wall. Through the reading of bibliographical works that address the aforementioned topics, we will discuss essential points for this work: identity and citizenship, racial hegemony, totalitarianism, North American immigration, Donald Trump's politics of fear, as well as the wall as a political proposal