Torto Arado and the Colonial Reconfiguration

Developments in the construction of gender and social relations

Abstract

This article presents an analysis and problematization of the theme of the colonial impact on identity and gender construction, based on the hermeneutics of the book "Torto Arado" by Itamar Vieira Junior (2019). The problem we focus our attention on is around the accounts of being a woman described in the aforementioned work. As a hypothesis, we emphasize the role of art, especially literature, in making explicit the toxic and violent relationships that mark the relationships between women, men, and society. In a journey of bibliographic review, we will use Michel Foucault (2019) as an epistemological basis to reflect on the relationship between philosophy, literature, and gender construction, as well as dialogue with contemporary theorists in the field of the construction of southern epistemologies, specifically Lélia González (2022) and Schwarcz (2012), both bringing to light the entanglements related to blackness and the female body. Finally, we highlight that heteronormativity, a product of coloniality, exerts power of control and subjugation, so that the aesthetic experience allows, on the one hand, the confrontation with realities and, at the same time, propositions related to the constitution of modes of subjectivity.