MÁRCIO SOUZA AND JUDAISM: A QUESTION OF ETHNICAL TERMINOLOGY IN BRAZILIAN LITERATURE

Abstract

The proposal of theoretical debate implies a confrontation through the concept of
memorial patchwork. The idea of palimpsest re-readings establishes an essayistic challenge
to rummage the invisible footprints of its Judaic origin. In this case, at the beginning of the
quest for the relics of the past, writing launches into the abyss, submitting to the risk of
creating sensations and images able to merge present and past. The article retakes a Márcio
Souza’s essay, “A verdadeira nação de Rafael Bentes”, known Amazonian author, where
under the focus of his rendezvous in the Sephardic Judaism, attempts to evoke conditions for
a pathway, not only to describe it properly, but to provide a testimony of reestablishment
under the Benjaminian orientation, that shed light to the dynamics of creation from sensible
to its historical and memorial discourse.