Effects of contemporaneity: the emergence of a literary paracampo

Abstract

The literary production of the Brazilian peripheries from the 2000s onwards challenges the structure of the hegemonic literary system. It is understood here as a cultural landmark that pluralizes contemporary Brazilian literary production, problematizing and challenging the hegemonic structures of the Brazilian literary field, of knowledge, and of power. This article considers the literary trajectories of Lima Barreto, Carolina Maria de Jesus, and João Antônio throughout the 20th century, and, in the 2000s, Paulo Lins’s work Cidade de Deus, Ferréz’s trajectory, and the publication of the three special editions of the magazine Caros Amigos/Literatura Marginal - 2001, 2002, and 2004, to demonstrate the emergence of another symbolic space of literary production: the paracampo. The proposition of this concept destabilizes the hegemonic literary field, interfering in the conditions and forms of cultural production from the Brazilian peripheries, thus justifying the elaboration of the concept to interpret the specificities of the literary objects addressed and how agents from the peripheries tension and interfere in the rules of the art of the literary field. The paracampo, thus, is an intercultural epistemic proposal that reflects the relationships established between culture-producing agents from the Brazilian peripheries and even beyond them.