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DATA : 17/10/2025
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: PPGEL
TÍTULO:

NARRATING THE COLLAPSE: LOOK AND CYNICISM IN ANA PAULA MAIA'S NOVEL

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Contemporary literature; necropolitics; postmodern narrator; cynicism; Ana Paula
Maia.

PÁGINAS: 176
GRANDE ÁREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Brasileira
RESUMO:

This thesis aims to understand how the narrator organizes the gaze on bodies, remnants, and
catastrophe in the works that comprise Ana Paula Maia’s Trilogy of the End: Enterre seus
mortos (2018), De cada quinhentos uma alma (2021), and Búfalos Selvagens (2024). The
investigation sustains the hypothesis that the narrator is configured as the very voice of a
collapsing world, acting as a disenchanted witness of necropolitics and cynicism that structure
contemporary experience. The methodological articulation of the work seeks to expose regimes
of visibility and modes of narrating the catastrophe, engaging with philosophy and cultural
criticism. The analytical trajectory is organized into three complementary movements. The first
chapter establishes the conceptual foundations of the analysis, addressing animality and the
abject to highlight bare life (vida nua), a central category in the work of Giorgio Agamben
(2002). Maia’s literature insists on zones of indiscernibility between human and animal, a
perspective that is expanded based on the reflections of Maria Esther Maciel (2016) on the
bestiary and Jacques Derrida (2002). Subsequently, the second chapter turns to the formal
dimension of the narrative, showing how the narrator operates with a fragmented logic and
relies on the remnant (resto) as a way of narrating the collapse. The analysis demonstrates the
narrator’s approach to cinematic imagery, and discusses the impossibility of totality and the
narrative in remnants, ideas that align with the contributions of Silviano Santiago (2002) and
Theodor W. Adorno (2003). The third chapter deepens the discussion by articulating
necropolitics (the management of death) with the disenchanted gaze (cynicism). The narrator,
by recording events with objectivity and coldness, reflects modern cynicism, as described by
Peter Sloterdijk (2012), and the ethical failure of the present, a theme addressed by Vladimir
Safatle (2008). It is concluded that the narrator, by recording the ethical and social collapse,
becomes the very materialization of an era marked by necropolitics and cynicism, transforming
the act of narrating into a record of devastation.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 83238001 - VERA LÚCIA DA ROCHA MAQUÊA
Interno - 102714100 - EDSON FLAVIO SANTOS
Externa ao Programa - 131981001 - SHIRLENE ROHR DE SOUZA
Externo à Instituição - MAGED TALAAT MOHAMED AHMED ELGEBALY - ASWU
Externo à Instituição - MARCOS APARECIDO PEREIRA - IFMT