Amazônia: inferno verde ou paraíso perdido? cenário e território na literatura escrita por Alberto Rangel e Euclides da Cunha
The Amazon representation either made by the foreign perspective, or by an autochthonous sight, is manifested wrongly, if not pernicious. An imaginary, sometimes fanciful, sometimes hellish has been established along a historical repetition of (pre) concepts and stereotypes. In many cases, literat...
| Autor principal: | QUEIROZ, José Francisco da Silva |
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| Grau: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | por |
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Universidade Federal do Pará
2020
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http://repositorio.ufpa.br:8080/jspui/handle/2011/12404 http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/nra.v5i3.6256 |
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The Amazon representation either made by the foreign perspective, or by an autochthonous sight, is
manifested wrongly, if not pernicious. An imaginary, sometimes fanciful, sometimes hellish has been
established along a historical repetition of (pre) concepts and stereotypes. In many cases, literature has
served to this standardization on the attempt to understand and explain the Amazonian region. The
first literary texts that put the Amazon in focus in the national Brazilian literary scene are linked to
positivism principles in vogue in the nineteenth century and are concomitantly inserted in the realismnaturalism
literary tradition. In discussion of the Green Hell (1908) and The Amazon: land without
history (1909), respectively written by Alberto Rangel and Euclides da Cunha; we can find these two
perspectives: a terrible place or a paradise. In this paper, we will discuss the ideological bases present
in the paratextual discourse (GENETTE, 2009) that support the infernal or paradisiacal
characterization of the Amazon; questioning at last how the narrative discourse
(Fictionality/Factuality) (STIERLE, 2002; SCHMID, 2010) intends to be taken as representative of a
space and of societies that dwell there in a certain historical context. |