Intertextualidade temática: o diálogo entre Vidas Secas e Torto Arado

Abstract

This monograph aims to analyze how thematic intertextuality between the novels Vidas Secas, by Graciliano Ramos, and Torto Arado, by Itamar Vieira Junior, highlights the mechanisms of silencing, social marginalization, and resistance of subaltern subjects. The research follows a qualitative, analytical, and descriptive approach, grounded in the studies of Kristeva (1974), Foucault (1979), Bakhtin (2006), Fiorin (2005), among others, seeking to understand how language—or its denial—functions both as a tool of power and as a means of symbolic resistance. The specific objectives include: presenting the concepts of intertextuality and interdiscursivity; examining the role of language and writing within power structures; and discussing the impact of linguistic education on the formation of marginalized subjects. The textual analysis of the works showed that, despite the temporal distance, both share a strong social critique of historical inequalities in Brazil, revealing how silence and exclusion can be reconfigured as forms of re-existence. The study concludes by emphasizing the importance of literature as a space for denouncing and giving visibility to silenced voices, affirming its political and formative role.