Editorial

Abstract

The articles in this edition of Terra Roxa e Outras Terras discuss vulnerability, in its ontological and pathogenic configurations, with respect to the relationships between human and nonhuman animals, and address ways to resist body violation. Pathogenic vulnerability, that is, the one born from relations of oppression and exploitation, is revealed in the tortured, subjected, and murdered bodies of Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s poetry (Guida and Melo) and in Ana Paula Maia’s De gados e homens (Barros). The latter also reflects upon anti-capitalist and anti-speciesist struggles, establishing a productive dialogue with the analysis of Lygia Bojunga Nunes’ O sofá estampado (Bortoletto and Libanori), in which oppression appears both in social poverty and in the misery that stretches beyond human life. The intersection between different forms of violence also figures in the analysis of Olga Tokarczuk’s Sobre os ossos dos mortos (Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead) (Rodrigues and González) and João Neto’s Contos gauchescos (Copstein), books that reinforce the relation between modes of domination such as speciesism, ableism, and sexism. Finally, the subject and the notion of subjectivity are interrogated in Arce, Alkmin, Gonçalves, Melo, Costa and Guimarães, prompting the review of animality and fostering an understanding of ontological vulnerability as something which enables the encounter between bodies marked by the force of insurrection.