O póscolonialismo e a literatura inglesa/ Postcolonialism and the english literature

Abstract

Os Estudos Poscoloniais surgiram no cenario internacional em meados dos anos 1970 e analisam, dentre outros pontos, as complicadas relacoes entre Metropole e Colonia, entre Colonizador e Colonizado, nos contextos colonial e\ou imperial, descortinando aspectos obscuros que envolvem tais relacoes e suas construcoes historicas. Este artigo objetiva discutir elementos importantes dentro dos debates acerca do poscolonialismo, tais como, identidade, diferenca, discurso, poder, as controversias acerca do termo “poscolonialismo” e seus diferentes significados, dentre outros. Alem disso, aborda a representacao do outro racial em obras classicas da literatura inglesa, tanto aquelas que seguem as ideologias imperialistas quanto a que subverte tal pratica, tal como O morro dos ventos uivantes . ABSTRACT Postcolonial Studies emerged in the international scenario in the 1970s and they have analyzed, among other issues, the complicated relations between the Metropolis and the Colony, the Colonizer and the Colonized, in the Colonial and/or Imperial contexts, revealing obscure aspects that involve such relations and their historical aspects. This paper aims to discuss important elements concerning postcolonialism, such as, identity, difference, discourse, power, and the controversies related to the term “postcolonialism” and its different meanings, among other issues. Besides, it approaches the representation of the racial other in Classical English literary works, that is, those that follow the imperialist ideologies and one that subverts such practice, such as Wuthering Heights.