Dissertação
Dinâmicas territoriais em Distancia de rescate, de Samanta Schweblin: considerações sobre o território latino-americano
Fecha
2023-02-07Autor
Cruz, Lucas Sauzem
Institución
Resumen
In order to observe territorial forms that cross Latin America, this work has as its main object
of analysis the territorial dynamics developed in the fictional universe of the narrative
Distancia de rescate (2014), by the Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin. However, to give
horizontality to the Latin American territorial perception, two brief literary analyses are
included embracing De gados e homens (2013), by the Brazilian writer Ana Paula Maia, and
Temporada de huracanes (2017), by the Mexican writer Fernanda Melchor. In the
composition of master thesis, the theoretical foundation on the concepts of territory and
deterritorialization is conducted from studies by the geographer Rogério Haesbaert, in
particular his book O mito da desterritorialização: do “fim dos territórios” à
multiterritorialidade (2011). In the aftermath, we seek to understand what is comprehended as
Latin America, having as a critical basis essays by Walter Mignolo (2005), and Darcy Ribeiro
(1986), and the context of current literary production, where the analysed narratives are
situated, especially from the considerations by Josefina Ludmer (2013), Florencia Garramuño
(2014), and Alberto Giordano (2010). For the analysis of Distancia de rescate, studies by
Leone (2016, 2017) on Argentinean rural imaginary are essential supports, since the book
presents a problem that involves the relationship between human being and natural
environment of the pampa gaúcho, in which Capitalist market actions are evidenced that
violate the countryside ecosystem and transform the ways of being in this territory into
corruption. Thus, in the end, the outline of a hostile zone for human life is perceived, which
causes the erasure of the identification of some subjects with the territory and deforms those
who persist in living there. As for Latin American territorialities, the three novels trace
territories that suffer from the absence of State power, the presence of capitalist enterprises in
rural regions, forms of violence in private and public daily life, forces that corrupt the
humanity of the subjects and with the melancholy of a prediction of a perverse and
increasingly excluding future.