THE SNAKE STORIES OF COLÔNIA DE UVÁ-GO (1938): AN ANALYSIS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE IMAGINARY

• Autor(a) principal: Gondim, Frederico Tadeu
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Habitus
• Texto Completo: https://seer.pucgoias.edu.br/index.php/habitus/article/view/12600
• topic: Imigração alemã; Goiás; Imaginário social.

The German Colony of Uvá represented, in the first half of the twentieth century, an attempt at establishing a German settlement in a region near Cidade de Goiás, former capital of the homonymous state, in addition to the dynamization of the local market. The reality experienced by these immigrants, however, was quite distinct - marked by the government’s neglect in a land that was unknown to them and to which they needed to adapt. On this context of helplessness, the Deutscher Morgen, a newspaper edited by the Nazi party in Brazil, launched a brief look that highlights the courage of the Germans in the face of the challenges faced. The purpose of this article is to analyze the reconfiguration of these settlers into heroes from the stories of snakes reported to (and by) the newspaper. In order to accomplish this, the interpretation key is the Imaginary (Durand, 2004, 2012), which provides a counterbalance to the tough reality.