A countercolonial reading of the novel Torto Arado by Itamar Vieira Júnior

Abstract

The present work aims to construct a reflection on literature from a countercolonial and American world-sense. The idea of ​​world-sense here is discussed based on the thought of the Nigerian philosopher Oyeronke Oyewumi (2021) as a decentering of the Eurocentric Weltanschauung. Lélia Gonzalez’s (2020) idea of ​​amefricanity is thought of as a concept that brings together a non-Western positioning of the world and provides the fundamentality of Antonio Bispo dos Santos’ (2023) thought within a non-Eurocentric and non-Western epistemological perspective also In literature. Through a countercolonial analysis (concept of the quilombola thinker Nego Bispo) of the trajectory of the narrators of Itamar Vieira Júnior’s novel, we seek to present a contribution to literary studies under non-Western categories of analysis and a notion of emancipatory and decentralizing literature, In addition to promoting reality representatives and not just represented.