The configuration of the brazilian neorregionalismo
Neorregionalismo - Narrative - Brazilian Literature - History of Literature - Authors Neorregionalistas
The aim of this thesis is to investigate Brazilian literary movement called “neorregionalismo”. The analysis will have two main starting points: the presence of autonomous women characters and the predominance of urban landscape in the novels under analysis. Attention also will be called to the fact that great majority of novels associated with the movement can be read as resistance pieces. The following novels will be studied: Beira Rio, Beira Vida; A filha do Meio-Quilo and Pacamão, from Assis Brasil. Raimundo Carrero’s Sombra Severa. Dois irmãos and Cinzas do Norte from Milton Hatoum. Francisco Dantas’s Coivara da Memória and Ronaldo Correia de Brito’s Galileia. If “Regionalismo” arised as a critique of modernization and a defender of agrarian past and values, Neorregionalismo is, in contradistinction, a urban literary movement. In neorregionalista novels, the women are very autonomous characters, not the submissive figures she used to be in the novels associated with original “regionalismo”. This notwithstanding, resistance dimension of writing is still present in the second version of the movement, as can be inferred from the preferred use of literary genre of memoir. The genre is here a way of preserve agrarian values. This is, essentially, a bibliographical investigation. Its theoretical basis are the following authors: Araújo (2010), Bachelard (1993), Bakhtin (2011), Bueno (2006), Candido (2000, 2006), Chiappini (2014), Williams (1989). In the first part, the new neoregionalista movement is defined and its existence as effective literary movement in Brazilian letters ascertained. After that, in the second part, it’s studied how the autonomous feminine characters are an essential aspect of the movement. In the third part it is studied the geographic space of novels under analysis; how the use of space is an element that ascertain the existence of the movement; how the experience of the characters -especially women characters – are linked to space. Last, neorregionalista’s memoirs are showed to be, actually, resistance pieces written against modernization and homogenization of culture.