A visão decolonial da violência sexual no romance histórico brasileiro

Abstract

Sexual violence against women is a mark of the colonial period, and the female body is exploited as a territory of colonization when violated to guarantee the procreation the two conquerors. The memory of these episodes is recovered in the historical novels by Ana Miranda, Desmundo (1996), and by Maria José Silveira, Her Mother’s Mother’s Mother and Her Daughters (2002), when they use official data to reconstruct transgressive women’s voices through a decolonial vision. When comparing the two analysis, we articulate the feminist reflections of Del Priore (2016), Lugones (2019) and Figueiredo (2020) to highlight the position of the narrators in these works, which question the naturalization of rape as a machine of portuguese colonization. In the investigation, we will focus on the transgressions of Miranda's protagonist, a portuguese orphan, who does not accept the standardization of rape by her colonizing husband, and on Silveira's indigenous characters, who were enslaved. As a result, we identified two narrators who anticipate the decolonial vision by highlighting that sexual violence was used as a strategy to populate Brazil.