TIA NASTÁCIA, BY MONTEIRO LOBATO: BETWEEN PROTAGONISM AND CULTURAL ERASURE

Abstract

In Histórias da Tia Nastácia (2018), the title character is the teller of stories from the Brazilian popular and folklore tradition. This work discusses the disqualification of Aunt Nastácia in the process of silencing her voice, a collective representative of black people and their ancestral culture. Michel Foucault (2013), and Eni Orlandi (2007) present the meanings of silence working on the form of its existence and its meaning, which are constructed in specific situations, which define the way of meaning, outlined in the enunciative scene (Maingueneau, 2015 , 2008). Monteiro Lobato grants Tia Nastácia, in theory, the possibility of a kind of protagonism as a narrator of traditional stories, but, at the same time, makes the voice of the humanized rag doll cancel it out, with the character's name being an example of this silencing . For this analysis, we propose the study of the Enunciative Scene as a fundamental element in a discursive analysis, in addition to lexical indications in the characterization of the characters, because when comparing the meanings of their names, we observe the construction of an allegory of colonial discourse about Brazil and its historical-cultural formation, silencing other voices, such as Tia Nastácia.