O agenciamento em Breve historia de sete assassinatos: Bob Marley, política e revolução no romance jamaicano de Marlon James

Abstract

This dissertation has as its theme the agency in the Jamaican novel by Marlon James (2017a), Brief history of seven killings. The narrative that makes up the corpus of this research is set in a newly independent Jamaica and has as its starting point the assassination attempt that Bob Marley and his family suffered on the night of December 3, 1976. to its narrators to rewrite the political history and social development of their country. During this period, in the same way, Bob Marley assumes himself as a political and revolutionary agent on his island, all due to the climate of tension that was established in Jamaica due to the parliamentary elections of that same year. Therefore, this dissertation analyzes the people who make up the Jaminian narrative, as well as the effects produced by James (2017a) when managing his main character, the singer Bob Marley. Supported by Deleuze and Guattari (1995; 2017a; 2017b) and Florentina Souza (2015) it was possible to perceive that the author manages his dozens of narrators, from different social points, to rewrite the social and political history of the island, of the Likewise, he explores a version that is little known around the world about the reggae star. Therefore, supported by Rabelo (2006), White (2012) and Bezerra (2012) it was possible to perceive the ways of life that helped the interpreter Bob Marley to assume his position as a political agent in Jamaica, such as the political and religious movement rastafari and the sound-manifesto of reggae music. Yet, supported by the theorists Stone (1977) and Marley and Jones (2020), I discuss the social conflicts propagated by the two main parties that were in the election for the parliamentary dispute on the Caribbean Island: the People's National Party (PNP) on the left spectrum and the Jamaican Labor Party (JLP) on the right spectrum. Both parties, in the electoral race, encouraged and sponsored the terror that left dozens of dead in the island. In this war framework, Marlon James' Bob Marley is inserted to sing of the freedom of his people and try to unite his nation.