Trabalho artesanal e trabalho industrial como elementos de sociabilidade, subjetividade e tragédia em “A mão esquerda”, de Roniwalter Jatobá

• Main Authors: Angela Maria Rubel Fanini, Adriana Cabral dos Santos
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade de Brasília 2013-01-01
• Series: Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea
• Subjects: roniwalter jatobá; contemporary short story; handy craft labor; factory labor; urban and rural space
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=323129312012
• ISSN: 1518-0158; 2316-4018

This paper investigates the short story “A mão esquerda”, by the Brazilian writer Roniwalter Jatobá, focusing the handy craft labor as an element of subjectiveness, sociability and ontology and factory labor as an element of depersonalization, disagregation and tragedy. The study backgrounds on Bakhtin’s theory on the novel and on Engels’ (1990) and Lukács’ (1980) view on human labor, analyzing language, point of view, space, intertextuality and social context.