Abstract

LOPES FILHO, Antônio; SARAIVA, Eduardo Steindorf  and  SILVA, Mozart Linhares da. The Racial Becoming in Anjo Negro. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.3, e12584.  Epub Nov 22, 2024. ISSN 2359-0769.  https://doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v22i3.e12584.

Inspired by Medeia, Eurípedes' tragedy, Anjo Negro, a piece written by Nelson Rodrigues in 1946, tells the story of an interracial couple who set about to watch over their third murdered son. Him, black man, doctor. She, a white woman, imprisoned by her husband within the walls of the couple's mansion. Through Rodrigues' dramaturgical writing, we seek to reflect the device of raciality and resistance in artistic production, as well as the production of subjectivity in the country of mythical racial democracy. When words are lacking to highlight the suffering generated in the process of racialization of the black subject, as opposed to whiteness taken as a norm and non-racialized identity, art offers overflow, movement and resistance. We take a risk in an essay analysis including authorship as a multiplicity: whoever writes, writes with many, with a historical period and its undertakings. So we also read Anjo Negro, in search of understanding what the work communicated when produced and what it represents today.

Keywords : raciality; identity; whiteness; resistance; subjectivation.

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