A bagaceira : marco móvel e literário

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The relevant aim of this proposition is related to the existence of speeches nearly always negative among the critic voices that studied A bagaceira. When analyzing this novel, the critics seem to be distant from the reality of the book, being far off a plausible approach concerning its historical-literary importance. Words such as: novel of the drought, direct language, primary realism, high dose of picturesque, characters without humanity, characters divided into good and bad, and etc, are clichés that reveal the reading of the book that has been done. The consideration that reading A bagaceira implies the confrontation with history and literary criticism, thus, is based on the certainty of the necessity of revision of the comprehension mentioned above. Since there are affirmations that, after being repeated so many times, took the face of truth, it is necessary to refute them in order to provide a different comprehension of the novel. Admitting this need, the present study will provide a reading of the readings and, in that revision of the criticism, it will reread the called mark novel of the generation of the thirties.To what extent can we consider A bagaceira the novel of the drought? How does it come close to or distance from the Literary Movement of Twenty-Two and Naturalism? How are the antitheses between Lowlands X Backlands and Nature X Social Structure built? Does the social matter surpass the regional matter in the book? How does de language used in the novel corroborate its final objective? These are some of the questions that will be searched in the criticisms and in the book, having as thesis the idea that José Américo de Almeida, like what happened to Monteiro Lobato, was criticized for being less audacious, linguistically speaking, than his predecessors in the Week of Modern Art (what makes his novel not naturalistic), and also suffered because his work was labeled as a novel of the drought, capable of covering up a novel that knew how to exalt the lowlands as a natural aspect, but knew, as well, to reveal the wandering social structure that massacres "migrants, castaways or refugees in the bagaceira, in the fresh and wet land, strange and almost adverse for them, which is the lowlands" (QUEIROZ, 1978, p. 106). A novel that is beyond the regional, Brazilian.From the thematic question to the problem of the language, treading the location of the book in the Brazilian literary historical map, almost everything has been left open and susceptible to discussion, which enables the proposal of a study of contentious tone. The purpose of this study is to provide a reading that disarticulates repeated prejudices, that discusses the problematic hero and the antithetical structure of the novel, that does not leave the political man of José Américo de Almeida make his reader forget the text, returning to a non fecund and retrograde biographism.

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ficção brasileira - história e crítica crítica literária brazilian fiction - history and criticism literary criticism

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