A literatura de viagem e as cosmogonias indígenas em Stradelli e Nunes Pereira

Abstract

Lendas e Notas de Viagem, Ermanno Stradelli (1852-1926) and Moronguetá: um Decameron Indígena, Nunes Pereira (1893-1985) offer a reading of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon from their mythology. Overall reports of travelers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these two publications are unique records of narratives that initially oral, witness memory of indigenous communities and heritages reveal socially constructed in the experience of those people. Already retaken by diverse fields of knowledge as anthropology, geography, history, etc., and bringing contributions from different, yet lacked these works being the object of investigation in the field of literary studies. This work proposes to think, because, as the collected cosmogonies and presented these works by men of science, Stradelli and Nunes Pereira, and inserted into a traveling literature, could be taken into literary perspective to fill the research gap in within the literary system. Therefore, it started with three main assumptions: first consider the traveler literature that entered Brazil and indigenous Amazon in the world's memory as a polarized literature between fiction and reality; the second would take the cosmogonic text study as a poetic journey that focused on indigenous cosmogony of the Brazilian Amazon, show some instances of literary, seeking to present certain resistance of the field and stripping them at the same time; and the third would consider the work as a writing of the border, which would allow between the various relationships the intersection between science and literature, and their foray inside other poetic. The thesis presented here, which resumed the study of travel literature produced by Stradelli and Nunes Pereira in clipping these works and whose link is the Amazon, was built by means of tests, which held dialogues with Merleau-Ponty the imagination of Bachelard and Durand, besides the revisitation of the literary theories proposed by Bakhtin, Jakobson and cultural studies, among others.