Abstract

BAUDOIN, Magela. An orphan world by Giuseppe Caputo: an anti-canonical poetic that breaks the model of “monohumanism” and the “reference-subject” of modernity. Rev. aportes de la comunicación [online]. 2023, n.35, pp.87-98. ISSN 2306-8671.  https://doi.org/10.56992/a.v1i35.445.

This article demonstrates how the novel An Orphan World (2016) by Giuseppe Caputo challen- ges the paradigm of modern “monohumanism” (Sylvia Winter), linked to whiteness, masculinity, symmetry, beauty and economic power, through an anti-canonical poetics in which it represents vulnerable and violated bodies that inhabit darkness and poverty and that face the tyranny of that “subject-reference” through anti-capitalist survival strategies based on solidarity, emotional ties, imagination and enjoyment, outside the times and orders of the Western power centers. The novel also proposes how language, so often used as a weapon of discrimination and violence, can be transformed into a shield of protection and a source of identity and beauty. Based on the theoretical contributions of Silvia Wynter, the essay reflects on the capacity of art and language to challenge and transform supremacist paradigms rooted in culture, which perpetuate discrimination and exclusion.

Keywords : anti-canonical poetics; anti-colonialism; language of resistance; concrete-individual-human-subject.

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