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"Faço tábula da fábula rasa". Decolonial rewriting of Brazil in Paulo Leminski's Catatau

Peter Schulze

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As a particular form of historiographic metafiction dealing with the Dutch colonization of Brazil, Paulo Leminski's "novel-idea" Catatau (1975) seems less concerned with factual history than with the epistemic dimensions of colonial discourse about Brazil. On the reading proposed here, Leminski's novel is understood as a decolonial "thought instrument" (V. DAS) based on a performative aesthetic. Catatau's textual strategies transform the protagonist, a fictionalised Descartes, into an echo chamber in which colonial rationalisms are denied by the appropriation of certain pretexts and genres and a prolific language of difference, resulting in a "de-interpretation" of Brazil as a way of "de-thinking" coloniality.

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Peter Schulze

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Schulze, P. (2022). "Faço tábula da fábula rasa". Decolonial rewriting of Brazil in Paulo Leminski's Catatau. https://doi.org/10.24261/2183-816x0136

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Tahun Terbit: 2022
Sumber Database: DOAJ
DOI: 10.24261/2183-816x0136
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