Abstract
The aim of this article is to search for the engendering of new cultural identities in the Americas, starting from studies centered on the analyses of processes and mechanisms of literary representations against backgrounds of sociopolitical and cultural turbulence. In this context, we propose an approach of two discursive universes representative of two different cultural regions, observing the deconstructive practice of colonialist matrices and the development of a critical discursivity that highlights the similarities that bring them closer and the differences that identify them under the process of contemporary neocolonialism in the representation of the character of the bastard in Canadian writer Réjean Ducharme’s novelThe Daughter of Christopher Columbus (La fille de Christophe Colomb[1969]) and in the song lyrics from the album Tropicália ou Panis et Circencis(1968), by Brazilian songwriter Gilberto Gil.
Keywords
Bastard; Identity; Imaginary; Outsider