Literature of minorities as critic of the present and radical politicization: thoughts on Brazilian Indian literature

Abstract

From the idea that minorities are a political construction in a double and imbricated movement, namely, as negativity in symbolical-normative terms and as a process of material destruction, We argue that literature of minorities in general and Indian literature in particular assume themselves as social criticism and radical politicization by means of the own direct, carnal and linked public-political expression of the writer, who, profoundly rooted in the group of which he/her is part and assuming openly this belonging, breaks with the silencing, invisibilization and privatism regarding its condition, denaturalizing and, then, politicizing subjects, institutions, relations, practices and values socially hegemonic which legitimize the construction of the minorities, as above commented.