Uma Poética de Dark Academia: como Babel de R. F. Kuang representa um processo de mudança no gênero

Abstract

The term Dark Academia is highly popular on social media and can be considered an aesthetic, a trend and a genre. In this sense, this work aims to poeticize Dark Academia as a genre, with the purpose of critically disseminating it in academic circles. To this end, it is necessary to explain Dark Academia's relation to the internet, the medium in which it circulates most widely, as well as the connections it has with Gothic and the Romantic movement. It is also important to show how it is constituted based on an analysis of its characteristics and to expose the criticism it receives for not being so inclusive. For this reason, the analysis of Babel: Or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford’s Translators’ Revolution, by the writer R. F. Kuang, is crucial to provide a new perspective on the criticisms leveled at the genre, since it tells the story of a young Chinese man who is taken to the United Kingdom to assist in the colonization process propagated by the British Empire. Thus, Kuang's novel makes it possible to see a process of change in Dark Academia.