Ossuaries: investigando um épico decolonial

Abstract

This work has aimed to investigate the long poem Ossuaries (2010) by Dionne Brand in view of the hypothesis of reading it as a decolonial epic, looking forward to answering the question: “which potentialities does the heroine’s journey of Yasmine, protagonist of Ossuaries, have?”. The overall objective of this dissertation was to expand the bibliography regarding the work of Dionne Brand in Brazil, with specific objectives: to examine Ossuaries (2010) from the perspective of the decolonial approach, to trace the itinerary of Yasmine, heroine of the work, as an epic adventure and to investigate relations between Brand's poetics and the Diaspora brands in contemporary times. The translation of the full text was the research method, based on the idea of translation as an instrument of reading and criticism. To that end, the definitions of decoloniality of María Lugones (2010) and Édouard Glissant's epic (2005) were taken as guidance. Besides the Introduction, this text has three chapters. The first deals with the possibility of decolonial narrators, discussing the structure of Brand's text in parallel with the narrators brought by Benjamin (1987), Santiago (2002) and Carvalho (2009). The second discusses Brand's heroine journey in contrast to the hero's journey proposed by Conrad (2007). The third takes a longer look at the singularities of Yasmine, the heroine of Brand's epic. In addition, in the appendix, the work has the full translation of Ossuaries (2010) into the Portuguese language, supplement (DERRIDA, 1995) of this thesis.