Violence as a structural trait of Brazilian sociability and its representations in "Cárcere ou Porque as Mulheres Viram Búfalo" and "Sortilégio II"

Abstract

This text carries out a comparative analysis between the works Cárcere ou Porque as Mulheres Viram Búfalo, by Dione Carlos, and Sortilégio II, by Abdias do Nascimento, taking as its starting point violence as a structural feature of Brazilian sociability. The hypothesis is that Brazilian artistic production, especially that of new agents that gained visibility from the middle of the 20th century, reflects a constitutive trait of national sociability, built from the process of colonization, enslavement and peripheralization in the capitalist world. The text also sustains that the process of making cultural manifestations of previously invisible subjects visible points out to an epistemic reorientation that is also reflected in the works analyzed. Through comparative analysis of the texts, the text concludes that it is possible to affirm that violence is incorporated into peripheral Brazilian cultural production as a reflection of the violence that constitutes Brazilian sociability. This incorporation, however, is not only thematic, but a constituent element of the aesthetics proposed by the analyzed works. Keywords: Dione Carlos; Abdias do Nascimento, Theatre; Violence; Marginal culture.