NEOIMPÉRIO, IDENTIDADE E SUBALTERNIDADE

UMA ANÁLISE PÓS-COLONIAL DA IDENTIDADE DOS PERSONAGENS EM O VELHO E O MAR, DE ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Abstract

This study aims to develop a post-colonial analysis of the English language novel The Old Man and the Sea (1952) by the North-American Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) with an attention on the definition of the characters´ identities represented in the narrative. For this purpose, it will be considered the predominant North-American neo-imperialist context in Cuba that covers the first half of the 20th century, period when this work was written. The use of the post-colonial theory for this study is justified due to its importance in the cross cultural studies, mainly when its concepts are applied in literature, promoting a reflection about the subalternity, condition attributed by the colonial power to the colonized people. Thus, with the analytical method, the characters will be observed as the main subjects affected by the United States’ neo-colonial system that determines as marginalized members toward the Empire. Therefore, the theoretical contributions of Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin (1989, 2007), Bonnici (2000, 2005), Bosi(1992), Memmi (2007), among others, will be fundamental to the production of this research, and they will help to attempt to the reading of the corpus as a representation of the subordinated singularity, whose image is determined by the American colonizer to the colonized Cuban.