RESISTANCE AND INDIGENOUS PROTAGONISM IN METADE CARA, METADE MÁSCARA, BY ELIANE POTIGUARA

Abstract

This article analyzes the work Metade cara, metade máscara (2004), by Eliane Potiguara, based on the ideas of resistance and indigenous protagonism in literary production. In this book, the author discusses the European invasion and the various forms of colonial violence against the native peoples of the continent. Mixing testimony, autobiography, romance and poetry, Eliane Potiguara develops in Metade cara, metade máscara a hybrid narrative, in which an authorial voice is observed, which at the same time exposes a series of reflections and socio-historical reports about the traditional populations, tells the adventures of the indigenous couple Cunhataí and Jurupiranga, who, separated by the colonizer, travel through time and space, witness colonialist atrocities and fight to find themselves again and to free the native peoples from oppression and social marginalization. The study is developed in dialogue with the theoretical-critical contributions of Graça Graúna, Julie Dorrico Peres, Daniel Munduruku, among others.