(In)submissive imaginaries in the contemporary Brazilian historical novel: A reading of um defeito de cor by Ana Maria Gonçalves

Abstract

By considering the contemporary literary production of historical extraction1 as a privileged reading space of the signs marginalized by hegemonic history, this chapter, in concordance with Esteves’s study (2012), accentuates and defends the importance assumed by such narratives in the constitution of an American imaginary re-signified by means of the discursive strategies that (re)invent forgotten temporalities.