MEDEA MINA JEJE: DA RELEITURA DRAMATÚRGICA GREGA AO PROTAGONISMO FEMININO NEGRO – UM OLHAR DECOLONIAL

Abstract

The myth of Medeia consists of an old Greek story that addresses themes such as love, betrayal, revenge and has been the subject of analysis over the centuries. There are several interpretations of this myth, making it a source of inspiration and reflection on the human condition and the complexities of interpersonal relationships, resulting in two dramaturgical works that will be the subject of research in this dissertation. The first work is the Greek tragedy staged by Euripides in March, 431 B C. whose title is the mythical character, Medea. In the second piece, written in the form of a poem, Medea Mina Jeje, Rudinei Borges dos Santos proposes a contemporary reinterpretation of the Greek myth, which addresses social and racial issues, presenting Medea as a black woman belonging to the Jeje nation, enslaved in the gold mines in the state of Minas Gerais. In this context, through the Bibliographic Research Methodology, this dissertation seeks to investigate the constitutive intertextuality of the character Medea, elucidating the points of convergence and divisions between the protagonists both in the work of Euripides and in the work of Rudinei Borges dos Santos. Furthermore, it also seeks to highlight the paths of feminism through time and present the discourse denouncing the ills suffered by the black population in Brazil, especially those specific to the black feminine, contained in the work Medea Mina Jeje, based, on this purpose, the decolonial theory proposed by thinkers from the Latino Subaltern Studies Group, made up of researches such Walter M. Mignolo, Aníbal Quijano, Ramón Grosfoguel, Santiago Castro Gómez e Lélia Gonzalez.