What writing means, a reading of “Da Cabula”

Abstract

This article will focus the relationship between dominated or popular cultures and the dominant or canonical culture, shaped especially in the areas of speaking and writing. For this, we use as a provocation the play Da Cabula, by Allan da Rosa, contextualized in the so called Marginal Literature. In this play, the appropriation of written by an illiterate woman will be the central theme, but at the same time, this acquisition will be made compatible with the affirmation of her own identity and african roots. From the peculiarities of this play (considering the connotations and representations of the plot, formal aspects such as the written record of orality, and the graphic presentation of the book), and the trajectory of the Marginal Literature within the Brazilian literary field, we will reflect on the opportunities for empowerment of subaltern subjects through the ritual uses of the word.