LITERATURAS, MITOS E IDENTIDADES NO PROCESSO DE “DECOLONIZAÇÃO” DA AMÉRICA LATINA

Abstract

This paper aims at reading and analyzing of the theoretical and critical reflection and of literary narratives that have been based on accounts from Amerindian culture and the consequent conflict with postcolonialist thought. According to a practice of comparative reading, it seeks itself to re-read the critical discourse about the Latin American in consonance with what it has produced itself  from Ángel Rama, for example, and in special  from the perspective of the "decolonizing " modeled on critical thought of Walter Mignolo: Learning to Unlearn - Decolonial Reflection from Eurasia and Americas (2012). From this angle, it is proposed a reading of the work "América mítica: histórias fantásticas de povos nativos e pré-colombianos (2013), by the Brazilian Rosana Rios, that recovers Amerindian narratives, and of works of the Caribbean/Sanandresian writer Jimmy Gordon Bull, as "Legado de piratas" (2010), among others whose author realized from the San Andrés' archipelago, a cultural rescue of this region from insular Caribbean. As a result of the "corpus" selection, as well as of the reading problematization while an enunciation place, the paper is reflected in its essayistic peculiar form operating in a space of reappropriation of silenced voices and/or immigrants literature and identities in transit. The myths of these peoples are superposed by a legacy of pirates to the service of the crown, of the colonialism, in an economic and cultural thirsting pillage. There are several points that connect the narratives of theses two writers, among which border conflicts, that require the border epistemological intervention while reading-misreading-unlearning clave of the "decolonizing", as a way of confrontation with the critical reflection, since they seek to reflect in this meeting a model of a thought and production of knowledge "decolonizers".