Between "ós", "ais" and "jaguanhenhéns": voice and language in Antônio Vieira and Guimarães Rosa from Nuno Ramos

• Grant number: 17/02288-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2017
• End date: September 30, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Brazilian Literature
• Principal Investigator: Roberto Zular
• Grantee: João Guilherme Dayrell de Magalhães Santos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research takes as object the articulation voice and language in Ó (2008), by Nuno Ramos, considering the correlation of this bipartition with the polarity culture and nature, as it's stated in Aristotle's Politics. It's concluded that Ramos elaborates a descent from the language to the voice, a procedure that can be understood as the inversion of the scheme outlined by Padre Antônio Vieira in the sermon "Nossa Senhora do O" (1640), in which the voice is submitted to language, body to the spirit. We will henceforth choose the narrative "Meu tio o Iauaretê", by João Guimarães Rosa, as a possible precursor of the expression "ó" for making animal noise cross communication, although our conclusion is that Nuno Ramos proposes a one-way going from the spirit to animality, from logos to phoné, which would allow us to link his humanist theory of the separation of culture and nature to that proposed by the philosopher Giorgio Agamben; while in Rosa there would be a perspectivist procedure, as the theorized by the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, according to which nature would also be capable of possessing language, knowledge. (AU)