PRECARIITY, OTHERNESS AND MEMORY: ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE OF ANALYSIS IN BEFORE THE PAST, THE SILENCE THAT COMES FROM ARAGUAIA

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the relationship between precariousness, otherness and memory, in the narrative Antes do Past, o silencio que vem do Araguaia (2012), by Liniane Haag Brum. For theoretical-methodological basis on memory, we used the discussions by Halbwachs (1990); Butler (2019), as a reference for analyzing precarious life; Benjamin (1987), on experience and poverty, and also Lévinas (1988), on the status of the Other. In this reflection we point out how the precariousness of silencing interferes with the narrator's remembrance, and equally makes it difficult to establish the otherness of the missing uncle.