Christian representations of Jewish people in Minas de prata, by José de Alencar / Representações cristãs do povo judeu em As minas de prata, de José de Alencar

AUTOR(ES)

Marta Bernadete Frolini de Aguiar Marczyk

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

In this dissertation, it is offered an analysis of the Jewish presence in the historical novel As minas de prata(The Silver Mines), a work from Romantic literature written by José de Alencar setting its plot in Brazils colonial times. As a compositional device, the novel resources to a narrator that dwells from the 17th to the 19th centuries, thus making the representation of the origins of Brazil and Brazilians under the banner of historical truth. In order to get inside the procedure of representation of the Jew, the present work aims to examine the models used by that narrative in composing the period of history that it is designed to portray, with the intention of investigating the construction of the Jewish origin characters as seen from the text as a whole. For such task, themes of a moral, theological, rhetorical and poetic nature, among others, are examined, and the novel is shown to apply models of the literary period in which its narrative is set. In this sense, the study of emblems, Latinism, religious sermon, picaresque genre, prudent hero, biblical enumeration, numerical composition, biblical typology provides the needed comprehensiveness for the investigation of the Jewish presence to be based on the general aesthetic architecture of the novel. In the examination of the Jewish presence, the narrative shows itself as being guided by a similar composition, that is to say, in it the colonial models play a role not only as time driven contents but also as a form of representating the Jew. For such an examination, as well as of other analyzed aspects, the dissertation compares passages of the novel with themes of the colonial literature, thus striving to show that the Jewish characters take their basic models from the Catolic theology and the biblical typology. As regards conclusion, the elements investigated along the research are tentatively inserted in the discussion that involves José de Alencar in his Romantic journey to define an identity to Brazil and its people through the historical novel. In this direction, an interpretation is proposed confirming the pair old/new in the domains of the literature: Colonial/ Romantic; of the state: dependent/independent; of the sacred books: Old Testament/ New Testament, and lastly of the formation of Brazilian people.

ASSUNTO(S)

as minas de prata; identidade nacional; josé de alencar; judaísmo; tipologia bíblica biblical typology; josé de alencar; judaism; national identity; the silver mines

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