Poéticas da animalidade literária: diálogos entre o humano e o não-humano

Abstract

The scope of this research is to provide a dialogue between theoretical assumptions that guide the field of studies called Animal Studies, some animal question writings of Machado de Assis and Bovinocultura paintings an art work of Humberto Espindola from Mato Grosso do Sul. The Animal Studies are formed as a hybrid space of discussions, in which among other things we sought to think the representations of non-human animal especially in literate. The hypothesis of the work presented here will support the believe that through dialogue and literary-philosophical art works in this field of studies maybe is possible to rethink the human status, which is strongly linked to an anthropocentric vision, and to discuss and question the different concepts of animality and/or humanity in which the non-human animal always seems relegated to a place of subjection. Furthermore, a possibility of reconfiguration of the way we look to human and non-human, through different performances in art work, literature work, or theoretical-philosophical papers. In the first chapter we will present the Animal Studies, tracing a brief overview of the academic research done in brasil and other countries. We will also promote a discussion from an interview by the North American writer and researcher Kari Weil, that in recent years has dedicated herself to write on animal otherness. In the Second chapter we will discuss in timely manner the representation of non- human animal in literature and visual arts, from dialogue with Machado de Assis texts, such as the Chronicles “Touradas”, “O boi”, “Carnívoros e vegetarianos”, among others, and the art work by Humberto Espíndola, such as Boi-Brasão, Boi & Society and Capitão Brasil. In the Third chapter we will present a discussion around humanism discussed by Martin Heidegger in his essay “Letter on humanism”, the humanist fictional philosophy addressed mainly in Quincas Borba, Machado de Assis, as well as a reflection around post-human. Finally a reflection around The animal that therefore I am proposed by Derrida and the romance Quincas Borba.