Testemunho, ação e resistência: da condição de pária à potência das histórias de Hannah Arendt para um feminismo crítico e autocrítico

Abstract

We propose an investigation structured around understanding the pariah condition and the potency of narrative in Hannah Arendt's thought as a key to the development of a feminism that is both critical and self-critical. The study seeks elements related to the “invention” of the pariah in the historical context of the Age of Enlightenment and in colonial discourse, but focuses on how Hannah Arendt re-signified this figure, adopting the stance of a “conscious pariah” and recovering the forgotten tradition of the “rebel pariah” as a human type of “supreme importance for the evaluation of humanity in our days”. The investigation also dedicates itself to examining the Arendtian refusal of a “History with a capital H” in favor of the narrative of “real stories”, seen as a way to reveal the political agent's “who” and to redeem the memory of singular and defeated lives. Finally, the thesis applies the Arendtian categories of testimony, action, and resistance to re-evaluate the emergence and institutionalization of the feminist struggle in Goiás, culminating in final considerations on the need for a feminism that incorporates the critique and self-critique of its own practices.