TRAGEDY, DIASPORA AND IMPROVISATION: FROM RACISM IN OTHELLO TO JAZZISTIC LANGUAGE IN THE EXPRESSION OF RIGHTS AND THE END OF MUTISM

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.216342315025

• Palavras-chave: Shakespeare; Othello; diaspora; Jazz; mutism; right; Elizabethan; creoles; Maa Ngala; language; tragedy; Africa; dignity; rituals; ritual; Mali; black; jazzy; musical; music; spirituals; fight; Eric Hobsbawn; civil rights; Nina Simone; Billie Holiday; Strange Fruit; movement; chorus; Slave Codes.

• Keywords: Shakespeare; Othello; diaspora; Jazz; mutism; right; Elizabethan; creoles; Maa Ngala; language; tragedy; Africa; dignity; rituals; ritual; Mali; black; jazzy; musical; music; spirituals; fight; Eric Hobsbawn; civil rights; Nina Simone; Billie Holiday; Strange Fruit; movement; chorus; Slave Codes.

• Abstract:

  The present article uses, as a starting point, the inductive analysis of the Shakespearean tragedy – written around the year 1603 –, based on the dialogues of the characters in the work, which make it possible to understand the racism that exists in it. There is also an exhibition on the African diaspora, a phenomenon of forced migration, for understanding the exploitation of black people, whose slave trade gave them the most diverse forms of oppression, including torture, abuse and degrading treatment, as a true kind of objectification of being. In view of this context, it exposes, finally, the importance of the jazz musical style in the struggle of blacks in search of civil rights, as well as the possibility of, based on its characteristics, facing the shadow of mutism present in the legal world, of in order to rescue the human intensity and dimension. For that, research on websites, documentaries and bibliographical works is used, examining the correlation between Literature and Music with Law and its forms of expression.