"Faço tábula da fábula rasa". Decolonial rewriting of Brazil in Paulo Leminski's Catatau
As a particular form of historiographic metafiction dealing with the Dutch colonization of Brazil, Paulo Leminski's "novel-idea" Catatau (1975) seems less concerned with factual history than with the epistemic dimensions of colonial discourse about Brazil. On the reading proposed her...
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Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas
2022-08-01
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As a particular form of historiographic metafiction dealing with the Dutch colonization of Brazil, Paulo Leminski's "novel-idea" Catatau (1975) seems less concerned with factual history than with the epistemic dimensions of colonial discourse about Brazil. On the reading proposed here, Leminski's novel is understood as a decolonial "thought instrument" (V. DAS) based on a performative aesthetic. Catatau's textual strategies transform the protagonist, a fictionalised Descartes, into an echo chamber in which colonial rationalisms are denied by the appropriation of certain pretexts and genres and a prolific language of difference, resulting in a "de-interpretation" of Brazil as a way of "de-thinking" coloniality.
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| spelling | doaj-art-5ef6463404be4fbbba41ac19e87f36962025-08-20T00:19:42ZengAssociação Internacional de LusitanistasVeredas2183-816X2022-08-013610.24261/2183-816x0136"Faço tábula da fábula rasa". Decolonial rewriting of Brazil in Paulo Leminski's CatatauPeter Schulze As a particular form of historiographic metafiction dealing with the Dutch colonization of Brazil, Paulo Leminski's "novel-idea" Catatau (1975) seems less concerned with factual history than with the epistemic dimensions of colonial discourse about Brazil. On the reading proposed here, Leminski's novel is understood as a decolonial "thought instrument" (V. DAS) based on a performative aesthetic. Catatau's textual strategies transform the protagonist, a fictionalised Descartes, into an echo chamber in which colonial rationalisms are denied by the appropriation of certain pretexts and genres and a prolific language of difference, resulting in a "de-interpretation" of Brazil as a way of "de-thinking" coloniality. https://revistaveredas.org/index.php/ver/article/view/808 |
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| title | "Faço tábula da fábula rasa". Decolonial rewriting of Brazil in Paulo Leminski's Catatau |
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| title_short | "Faço tábula da fábula rasa". Decolonial rewriting of Brazil in Paulo Leminski's Catatau |
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