Produção Nacional
A Tropical burden: colony, culture and power
2015; Volume: 6; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.7443/problemata.v6i1.24251
ISSN2236-8612
Autores Tópico(s)Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
ResumoThis article aims to think about the colonization as an epistemological phenomenon having large influence on the production of knowledge in Brazil.The tropical "Fado" (a kind of melancholic Portuguese folk music), evoking Chico Buarque's song, will serve as a metaphor to approach to the burden ("fardo" in Portuguese) that marks the subjectivity of those who were colonized in the past: the repetition of the hegemonic standard driven by the desire to be like the Metropolis.If in someone the imitation means some knowledge produced under the influence of coloniality of thought, in others, like Oswald de Andrade, it serves as a possibility of deconstruction and satire of the dependence.
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