A representação da subalternidade em Que horas ela volta?

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyse the representations of subalternity scenarios in the Brazilian film Que Horas Ela Volta? (2015). For this, the social relations in the filmic diegesis are observed, which are centred in a house located in the Morumbi neighbourhood, in São Paulo. Thus, the dynamics that cross the plot will be analysed to understand the relationships between the characters along with the elements present in the dialogues and scenarios that construct subalternisation. The dissertation has as its theoretical-critical contributions cultural, postcolonial and decolonial studies that, together, reveal the complexity of the concept of subalternity. It is found that the film analysed is an artistic object that represents certain individuals in the social structure, especially the subaltern ones, one of them, the figure of the housemaid, which, through art, enhances a decolonisation of the subject, in the ways of feeling, seeing, acting and perceiving oneself in the world. A policy and an action that can be interpreted as decolonial is observed, that is: the protagonism of the subalternised, the transformation of hegemonic practices and the possibility of change, establishing a praxis that challenges the hegemonic regimes of representation and visual identification.