Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LUCAS JOSE DE MELLO LOPES

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LUCAS JOSE DE MELLO LOPES
DATE: 05/12/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

VIDAS SECAS AND TORTO ARADO: REPRESENTATIONS OF RURAL SPACE IN BRAZILIAN LITERATURE 

KEY WORDS:

Brazilian literature; Barren Lives; Crooked Plow; novel; chronotope.

PAGES: 44
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Comparada
SUMMARY:

This dissertation focuses on the novels Barren Lives [1938], by Graciliano Ramos, and Crooked Plow [2018], by Itamar Vieira Junior. There is an evident contiguity between them: they are set in the rural space of the Brazilian Northeast, with characters attached to an unfavorable climatic situation and to power relations defined by the latifundium. However, we are interested in what differentiates them: the way in which this space is structurally reduced and radiates into the composition of each work. We ask ourselves, therefore, how the two novels, based on the context of production, aesthetically edify the Brazilian rural space and the subjects inscribed in it, and if, behind this distinction in the elaboration of space, there are changes in the configuration of the novel genre. The research aims to compare the construction of rural space in the two novels, observing its implications for other elements of the narrative. Specifically, it aims to: a) recover the social-literary process that shaped each of the works; b) analyze the image of the human being that arises from the link between characters, space, time and power relations; and c) verify the development of the novel genre itself in each of the texts. To this end, we align ourselves with the integrative critique of Antonio Candido and seek theoretical support in the Bakhtinian theory of the novel — especially in the concept of chronotope — and in the theory of modes by Northrop Frye. The analysis reveals that the elaboration of space in the two novels dialogues with the country’s reality at the time of writing of each author: Graciliano Ramos, faced with a dictatorial Brazil, still negligent in relation to the distribution of land, conceives a circular chronotope that takes up old prose fiction forms. In this chronotope, based on a reality-principle, cyclical time and space marked by oppressive power relations imprison the characters in an apparently inescapable misery. On the other hand, Itamar Vieira Junior — faced with a Constitution that recognizes the social function of property, a Brazil full of social movements of rural people focused on the issue of land, but still marked by the strength of agribusiness and large landowners — erases the circular chronotope conceived by Ramos, creating another one based on a split-principle, in which peasant characters, even within oppressive power structures, adopt a combative posture, of one who manages not only to glimpse another world, but also to organize themselves in order to achieve it.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 3351552 - ROSANNE BEZERRA DE ARAUJO
Interno - 1496892 - MARCIO VENICIO BARBOSA
Externo ao Programa - 1513790 - ANDREY PEREIRA DE OLIVEIRA - UFRN