A descoberta do frio, de Oswaldo de Camargo: a inscrição da novela no espaço ficcional da Literatura Negro-brasileira

Abstract

This paper intends to analyze and interpret the work A descoberta do frio (The discovery of cold) (2011), inaugural novel from Oswaldo de Camargo. The objective is to investigate the black enunciate'I' and evaluate the way the novel genre may contribute for its fictional construction. The problematics is as such: in which way the historic theme related to the Afro-Brazilian literature reveals itself as a structural contribution for the construction of the esthetic of the novel A descoberta do frio (The discovery of the cold)? Which are the historical-cultural elements that are highlightedin the constitution of the novel integrated to the esthetic of the author based on the paradigms of Afro-Brazilian Literature? The answers we have reached were by means of the hypothesis that the literature of enunciation was favored by a way to narrate that is contemporaneous and descriptive. It contributes to demonstrate the incompleteness and the silence inserted in the enunciate, as spaces reconfiguring the historical past revisited by the narrator's conscience in the narrative present, between what was said and unsaid, once justified by the metaphor of the "poetic of the cold". The investigation regarding the African-Brazilian “enunciated I” was supported by research conducted on the authors and following subthemes: “the- I-who-wants-to-be-black, by Zilá Bernd (1988); the esthetic construction of the novel genre, by the authors Massaud Moisés (1983), Stalloni (2001) and Aubrit (2002); the historical question concerning the classifications of black-Brazilian literature and African-Brazilian literature supported by Zilá Bernd (1988), Eduardo de Assis Duarte (2011), Maria Nazareth Soares Fonseca (2011); and Luiz Silva Cuti (2010); besides the contributions of Bakhtin that justify the presence of hetero speech in the novel (2015)