(De)colonial monologues: on the construction of a pluriversal corality in recent Brazilian theatre texts

Abstract

Through a formal and thematical analisis of four recent Brazilian dramaturgies (Vaga Carne by Grace Passô, Buraquinhos by Jhonny Salaberg,  Alice Músculo by Francis Madson, Tybyra by Juão Nyn), this essay highlights principles of constructiing of textual corality that can be denominated as (de)colonial. To put these texts in relation to (de)colonial contexts, we start from an understanding of the (de)colonial situation as marked by a mestiça consciousness whose main trait is a inner split between two ways of being, permanent and efemeral, between a feeling of belonging to oneself and to conflicting external realities. A plurality of voices that arises from this fracture is organized by these texts in such a way as to constitute either a threat to the desire of understanding oneself as modern; or of understanding oneself as part of a historical multitude or as part of a marginalized universe that confronts with its experiences and realities of the tropical wildland the blazing tempest of modern monoculture.