Desvelando a periferia: ficção e história em Capão Pecado, de Ferréz

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the representations of the periphery in the novel Capão pecado as a historical source from the fields of literary criticism and the historiographical current of New Cultural History (NCH) that defends the approximation between Literature and History. Ferréz?s novel, Capão pecado, as well as the authors other productions, is part of a cultural movement that coined for itself the expression of "marginal literature", produced by writers from the periphery. The periphery and its entire orbit are the guiding thread of the novel, as well as the guiding thread of most of the works that make up this cultural movement. Social problems and their causal relationships with unfinished citizenship processes in Brazil lead the reader to reflect on the complexity of this place coined as periphery. When analyzing this literary text from the perspective of a historical source, it will be sought to show how literary creation can unveil the social gaps still latent in Brazilian society today [resumo fornecido pelo autor].