Indian literature between ancient communitarian tradition and critic of the present: on the Indian voice-praxis in aesthetical-literary terms

Abstract

We argue that the literature of minorities in general and the Indian literature in particular allow the publicization of the voice-praxis exactly of these minorities (in our case here, of the Indians themselves) from a perspective that intersects I and community-group and founds and constitutes itself by the triad memory (as community and victim), self-affirmation (as minority) and political-cultural resistance (against marginalization, exclusion and violence suffered and lived as minorities). Regarding Indian Brazilian literature, we will argue that it is developed in this correlation of recovery and affirmation of communitarian ancient tradition (which links in a totally imbricated way the aesthetic-literary subject and community of culture) and critic of the present (the constitution of a linked, carnal and political voice-praxis, reported self-biographically and mnemonically), enabling and promoting the publicization of the proper condition and the aesthetic-political activism of the Indian regarding institutions and the others epistemological-political subjects, breaking up with the silencing in relation to Indian question established in terms of public sphere. Then, our central argument is that literature of minorities and, then, Indian literature are constituted directly as aesthetic-political activism by means of both the use of and the linking to communitarian tradition (the lyrical, political and cultural I-We), and of the voice-praxis of denounce and unveiling of the condition of exclusion, marginalization and violence which are lived – this is a fundamental condition for the analysis of the sense of the authorship and aesthetical-literary expression of the minorities in general and of the Indian productions in particular.