Marginálias: uma reflexão escrita e imagética sobre as anotações encontradas nas páginas de um exemplar de Casa Grande & Senzala, de 1936

Abstract

This dissertation was born out of a desire to respond to an unusual encounter with a book. The book in this research is also understood as a materiality and spatiality that has repercussions on the production; it is the place from which I draw concepts, phrases, fragments and confessional testimonies of the horror of colonialism in Brazil. This text was created in order to bring together theoretical reflections and work that I developed during my master's degree, in order to understand how it is possible to create images that speak of the weight of the past and its perpetuation in structural racism and at the same time establish a critique of the role of whiteness in this debate. This work installs the dimension of reading as an operation of time travel, of approaching a historical context for a necessary struggle, in this clash with an erased, naturalized past. In this way, reading is also understood as an active force that changes something when it is done, starting with ourselves and our perceptions.