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NARRATIVAS SILENCIADAS

2023, ANAMORPHOSIS - REVISTA DE DIREITO E LITERATURA

https://doi.org/10.21119/anamps.9.1.e1019

This article aims to discuss the possibility of thinking Law not from a supposedly universal and abstract perspective, but from what the German philosopher Walter Benjamin called the tradition of the oppressed. The fundamental question here is not about who narrates the Law, but about which voices could have narrated them if they had not been silenced. Assuming with Benjamin that it is impossible to criticize an institution such as the law without deconstructing the language in which the legal universe is sedimented, the article resorts to literary language as a way of bringing to light silenced narratives. To do so, it also dialogues with the history of silence as told by the American writer Rebecca Solnit, aiming to see the reports of those who are authorized to speak as a small island in the middle of an ocean of silence. Finally, storytelling will be used as a privileged example of the type of linguistic deconstruction that is being defended.