Banca de DEFESA: STEFAN WILLIAN OLIVEIRA DA SILVA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : STEFAN WILLIAN OLIVEIRA DA SILVA
DATE: 13/04/2021
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Online
TITLE:

Cannibalism and literature: social criticism and the bizarre world in Jantar Secreto

KEY WORDS:

Cannibalism. Social critique. Grotesque. Necropolitics.

PAGES: 91
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Brasileira
SUMMARY:

This Master’s Thesis presents a case study of Jantar Secreto (2016), written by
Raphael Montes, in which the main theme revolves around cannibalism. The aim of
this work was to associate excerpts from the novel to aspects of the contemporary
world which endorses this narrative. Jantar Secreto (2016) is filled with hyperbolic
elements, which reveals themselves through suspense, the horror, and the
grotesque. A parallel between the narrative and Rubem Fonseca’s literary works was
established and it revealed that Fonseca had a strong influence on Montes’ writings,
especially in short stories such as Anjos da Marquises, published in the collection
Confraria das Espadas (1986), and Nau Catrineta, part of book Feliz Ano Novo
(1975). Then, a historical background about Anthropophagy in Brazil was traced,
from its historical and cultural aspects in indigenous communities, to the
Anthropophagic Movement, its presence in literature, and its contemporary
representations in the Arts, in which it assumes a position of criticism and denounce,
besides drawing attention to problems related to the social inequality inherited from
the colonization process in Brazil. Thus, it became clear that some elements from
literary fiction, namely cannibalism, organs traffic and social inequality producing
violent situations, are common in a real life that is characterized by a post-modern
discontent, a consequence of the necropolitics promoted by neoliberal systems.
Finally, the presence of cannibalism in different forms of artistic expressions was
underlined, and it indicated that society is becoming more interested in this topic,
even though its representation acquires new meanings depending on the subjectivity
of the artist/author. However, most of the times, cannibalism holds a critical bias in
literary, social, and political spheres.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1719890 - JOAO BARRETO DA FONSECA
Interna - 435041 - MARIA ANGELA DE ARAUJO RESENDE
Externa à Instituição - CILENE MARGARETE PEREIRA - UNICAMP