Paper, pen and a mic in my hand: the rap as a form in Fábrica de fazer vilão

Abstract

The present work seeks to analyze Ferréz (2009) short story “Fábrica de fazer vilão”, observing how intermedial references (Elleström, 2017; Rajewsky, 2012) are constructed in the text between literature and music through the incorporation of the sung and rhythmic words of rap, the flow (Ferreira, 2020; Hankin, 2021; Oliveira, 2019). Such a strategy is responsible for tensioning the limits of literary writing in the direction of peripheral forms of narrative elaborations, therefore, building fissures in traditional form of literary short stories. The text shows the story of a Black young first-person narrator, resident of a peripheral neighborhood of São Paulo, who sees his mother’s bar being targeted in a violent police approach. The action described in the plot is brief, but when pacing the narrative, the use of flow techniques enhances the reading of the story and impresses in the readers the fear and terror provoked in the characters by police actions. In Ferréz's work, police violence affects another aspect of the protagonist's subjectivity. which is here understood as an allegory of the peripheral art producer, who inside the described context, sees himself continuously between the artistic creation and the weight of the reality that surrounds him.