FRONTEIRAS DE RESISTÊNCIAS NA CONTÍSTICA DE EDWIDGE DANTICAT

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing two short stories of the Hatian-American writer Edwidge Danticat. They are "Children of The Sea '' and “Nineteen Thirty-seven” of the collection Krik? Krak! (2015). "Children of The Sea'' takes place during the dictatorship of François Duvalier which lasted about fourteen years. Characterized as an authoritarian, totalitarian and violent government with the assistance of his Militia, The Tonton Macoute caused a diasporic movement. As for in Nineteen thirty-seven, it gives evidence to a harsh period for Hatian people: The Parsley massacre that took place right on the border between Haiti and The Dominican Republic ordered by the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. We intend to analyze the role of the borders in the short stories aforementioned and demonstrate, in the narratives, the types of resistance that the characters, especially the female ones, use against the imposition of the frontiers, be them either physical, political, ideological, psychological, sexual or cultural, reacting in distinct ways to the oppressions experienced. To substantiate our analysis, we resort to the assistance of some names of the decolonial theory such as Walter Mignolo (2008), Aníbal Quijano (2005), Bernardino-Costa and Grosfoguel (2016). We will also approach the matter of borders with the support of the Chicana writer Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1987). Hence it was proposed to investigate the female characters in the short stories, our theoretical basis will elaborate on the non-hegemonic feminisms and the concept of body territory with Lorena Cabnal(2020).