The Human Animal and the Inhuman in Meia Pata by Ricardo Dantas

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Abstract

This research aims to investigate the construction of subjectivity and alterity through the interaction of the characters Daniel and Meia Pata in the wild forest of Caracaraí, in the state of Roraima, as presented in the novel Meia Pata (2013) by Ricardo Dantas. To do so, our research touches on what Jacques Derrida, a key thinker for this analysis, criticizes as the relationship established between human and inhuman animals: a relationship of violent and dominating exploitation. This occurs because the idea of animal in the West adopts the Cartesian concept of animal as a machine, without feelings or language, enabling its annihilation or indiscriminate use of their bodies. However, in the analyzed work, the jaguar exhibits feelings and strategic reasoning, just as the human animal develops survival instincts in the forest, as well as familiarity with wild life. These events bring the subjectivities closer and put them in a relational condition, pointing towards a becoming without calculation of their identities.

Author Biography

Adriana, UFRR

Postdoctoral by UFJF (2022), Postdoctoral by UFRR (2013), Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Roraima since 2017, PhD in Theory of Literature by Unesp (2010), Master in Literary Theory and Criticism of Culture by UFSJ ( 2005). He was at Universidade Nova de Lisboa with a PDEE-CAPES scholarship researching Literature and Autobiography. Author of the literary criticism books Rastros de Memória (2008) and O Pilão de Pilar Memórias (2019). She is currently researching projects on Education, African and Indigenous Literature and is Coordinator of the Research Project Language and Myth: Cultural Translations. Has experience in the area of ​​Education and Theory of Literature, with emphasis on Literary Criticism, Cultural Memory and Comparative Literature

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2024-12-15

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Freire, B., & Adriana. (2024). The Human Animal and the Inhuman in Meia Pata by Ricardo Dantas. Porto Das Letras, 10(Especial), 253–267. https://doi.org/10.20873.24e17

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Vol. 10 No. Especial (2024): Literatura Comparada, outras artes e saberes

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