PYGMY-BECOMING: AND THE LITERATURE INVENTS THE SMALLEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD

Abstract

Of so much digging a groove for a people within another, of so much play with the toy boxes, literature of becoming reaches maximum power of fable miniaturization. It is with a woman Pygmy “find” whose "actual size" corresponds to your picture in the newspaper pages that Clarice Lispector invents "the smallest woman in the world". The announcement of the untimely appearance of this modern Luci installs immediately into the narrative a sounding board that opposes the discourse of family and city order to the point of view of a tree in the rainforest. The anomalous and delusional smallness of a minor people (DELEUZE) bursts of majority in the empire of facts and representations of the People. And it produces the counternew of a disappearance in continuum, which repeats the Escher mechanism in the engraving series “Smaller and smaller”. As the legend of the Matryoshka doll, the little black woman carries in the pregnant womb a people disappearing, a people that lack to literature. The technical singularity of "Little Flower" image exposes the political anomaly of a people who radicalize in the body the representation of his minority as a pure fable resistance gesture. With the "strange grace" Pygmy, the literature awakens her cannibalistic hunger of a primitivism that has nothing to do with precedence and delay, but with minoration in depth.