"Agardaba que me declarasen inocente"

Lucky, de Alice Sebold: a inocencia e o xuízo narrativo

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17979/arief.2026.11.2.13459

Palabras clave:

#MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, inocencia, cancelación, narratividade

Resumo

A obra de memorias de Alice Sebold, Lucky (1999), constitúe un dos testemuños máis coñecidos sobre a violencia sexual anteriores ao movemento #MeToo. O texto comeza coa brutal agresión sufrida por Sebold durante a súa etapa como estudante universitaria branca e expón as repercusións do suceso, sinalando como un punto de inflexión clave a súa participación no xuízo e a posterior condena de Anthony Broadwater. Malia non ter gozado dunha grande aceptación tras a súa publicación orixinal, a obra converteuse nun éxito de vendas a raíz do triunfo da novela de Sebold The Lovely Bones (2002), e en 2019 atopábase en fase de adaptación cinematográfica. Foi entón cando a recepción da narrativa comezou a transformarse. Diversos participantes manifestaron a súa incomodidade respecto das dinámicas raciais presentes no filme, que se producía tras a eclosión do movemento Black Lives Matter. A identidade racial do agresor de Sebold foi modificada para presentalo como branco, e a produción cinematográfica suspendeuse cando unha investigación puxo en dúbida a condena de Broadwater, que foi anulada en 2021. Tras estes acontecementos, Lucky foi retirada do mercado editorial, ao tempo que se anunciaba unha longametraxe sobre a historia de Broadwater —titulada provisionalmente Unlucky— que nunca chegou a realizarse. Se ben as repercusións de movementos como #MeToo adoitan analizarse en función das historias que contribúen a visibilizar, este traballo interésase por conceptualizar a desarticulación narrativa de Lucky e a creación dun arquivo de textos pantasma, en paralelo á ‘cancelación’ da propia Sebold. Este enfoque resulta de grande utilidade para examinar as cambiantes relacións entre as narrativas persoais e as políticas culturais de xénero, raza e xustiza na era post-#MeToo, así como para reflexionar sobre os legados entrelazados e as tensións existentes entre o fenómeno #MeToo e os movementos pola xustiza racial.

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2026-07-31

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"Agardaba que me declarasen inocente": Lucky, de Alice Sebold: a inocencia e o xuízo narrativo. (2026). Atlánticas. Revista Internacional de Estudios Feministas, 11(2), 2-31. https://doi.org/10.17979/arief.2026.11.2.13459