Viagens na minha terra: a Amazônia (re)visitada no inferno verde

Abstract

The theme of this dissertation is based on the interface between literature and history by electing the socio-critical as a reference for assessing the storybook Inferno Verde cenas e cenários do Amazonas (1908), written by Alberto Rangel do Rêgo, in comparison with Os Sertões (1902) and À margem da história (1909), by Euclides da Cunha. The scope of work is a reflection on the Brazilian national identity apparent in fiction that thematizes the space of the Amazon, looks the discussion of the mestizo nationalism. Such a view, present in the Brazilian intelligentsia of the late XIX century approach, in mesures concepts of " identity" and " civilization ", seeking to understand the paradox latent nationalism versus universalism in Inferno Verde, under the concern to consider it genuinely Brazilian literature. In this environment, the trajectory traced by traveller-narrator, a witness of the themed historical context - the Amazon Rubber Cycle - brought us this work wich may reading as brand authenticity. To this, we must research the processes underlying meaning, which materialize the object of study, watching the imagery that influenced the traveller-narrator on lands never before seen since the XVI century, also analyzing the discourses, social types, natural (and cultural) spaces in the literary context in Inferno Verde, the weakness of language in representing the reports of the tale; conceptions about the genesis of the work, which keep contact / dialogue with the look; and, finally, the european convictions about the pure amazon myth, originated by ethnocentric notions of the XIX century, which record antithetical images of hell and amazon paradise. That said, will bring the work had demonstrated in the context of thought and literary production of the time figuring Inferno Verde as a current, innovative and unique as your style and forward looking aspects in that literary representation.