COLONIZATION AND COLONIALITY IN MILTON HATOUM'S LITERATURE
Literature; Milton Hatoum; Amazon; Decolonization
This thesis was dedicated to the study of the first phase of writing by the Amazonian Milton Hatoum. His work takes place in the Amazon or has it as a reference for displacements and settlements. The author makes the interesting movement of giving voice to the colonized by putting themselfs in motion advancement in the fabric of the narratives. And, within this perspective, the proposed analysis was carried out in the context of decolonization that puts into question the "leftovers" of colonization and the ills arising from this process, riddled with greed, allied to the colonizer's sharpest teeth, stuck in the colonizer's throat. , ready to suck up until the last drop. It is not a very extensive work, however, full of subjectivities and conflicts that mark the voices of those excluded from the modernization process, making his novels, tales and essays an extremely dense literary production. The works that make up the corpus of this research are: Relato de um Certo Oriente (1989), Dois Irmãos (2000), Cinzas do Norte (2005) and Órfãos do Eldorado (2008). And, to support the analysis, we propose authors of literary, cultural, post-colonial studies, subaltern studies and colonialism as: Aníbal Quijano, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Humberto Eco, Alfredo Bosi, Zygmunt Bauman, Octávio Paz, Georg Lukács, Milton Santos, Homi K. Bhabha, João de Jesus Paes Loureiro and others.