O Quatrilho: from the Italian colony to Brazilianness

• Autor(a) principal: Matos, Anderson Hakenhoar
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: letrônica
• DOI: 10.15448/1984-4301.2016.1.22199
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/letronica/article/view/22199
• topic: Cultural indentity; Italian immigration; o Quatrilho; Identidade cultural; Imigração italiana; O Quatrilho.

In O Quatrilho, José Clemente Pozenato portrays the Italian immigration in the mountains of Rio Grande do Sul and demonstrates how religion played a key role in maintaining the characteristics of that community, especially with regard to collectivity. From this, it is aimed to demonstrate how that novel can be characterized as a historic novel. Besides, this study discusses aspects of the cultural identity of the Italian immigrant in that novel, especially those that somehow lead immigrants and their descendants to Brazilianness, namely collectivity (more precisely the negation of collectivity) and the influence of religion (in this case the Catholic religion). To this end, we start from the reflections of Lukács (1996) and his characterization of historic novel, from Anderson (2008) and his conception of nation as an imagined community, and Hall (2009) and his ideas on cultural identities, to understand the transition from the Italian colony to Brazilianness committed mainly by the protagonists of the work under study, Angelo Gardone.