Jornadas e identidades diaspóricas em Small Island de Andrea Levy

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Ana Flávia de Morais Faria
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMT
• Texto Completo: http://ri.ufmt.br/handle/1/1059
• topic: Diáspora; Identidades; Pensamento da fronteira; Andrea Levy; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES; Diaspora; Identities; Border thinking; Andrea Levy

This dissertation analyzes political, social and above all cultural issues between the British Empire and the Caribbean in a post-colonial context, taking as its object of study the novel Small Island (2004) by African-Caribbean-British Andrea Levy. Voluntary and involuntary dispersions known as diaspora are some of the issues problematized by Levy's work, which recreates the story of the mass displacement of hundreds of African-Caribbeans who migrated to Britain in search of better living conditions. In order to destabilise the hegemony built by Western European knowledge, this study seeks to understand how the identities of the individuals who experienced the diaspora are formed in Levy’s work, especially focusing on African-Caribbean characters. The methodology of the work, with its interdisciplinary entanglement of theories, is based on the contributions of Stuart Hall (2003, 2006), Roland Walter (2009), Homi Bhabha (2012), Edward Said (2011), Aníbal Quijano (2005), Ramón Grosfoguel (2008), Mikhail Bakhtin (2006, 2010), and Omar Calabrese (1999), given the complexity of our object, that is, a novel that deals with the history of a generation formed by the crossing of various cultures. The novel is mainly analyzed by a postcolonial approach, especially using theories formulated by critics of the diaspora, because they prioritize the migrant’s speech and border thinking from the point of view of the subaltern. The migrant's speech once marginalized in colonial discourse is therefore the starting point for the discussion of this work, which aims to promote new ways of thinking about identities.