Mito e processos de identificação cultural em órfãos do Eldorado, de Milton Hatoum

• Autor(a) principal: Penalva, Liozina Kauana de Carvalho
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/3284
• topic: Amazon; Identity/Hybridity; Orphans of Eldorado; Amazônia; Identidade/Hibridismo; Órfãos do Eldorado; Milton Hatoum; Letras; Identidade - Amazônia; Fusão cultural; Cultura - Amazônia; Amazônia; 82

In this work we propose a discussion about representations of identities in the Brazilian Amazon, from the novel Órfãos do Eldorado (Orphans of Eldorado) by Milton Hatoum. This narrative is developed in a context of living together with multiple and complex cultures that slide by mobile, unstable and indeterminate boundaries. The proposal is to observe how relationships of identities and differences are established in the complexity of Amazonian cultural, aiming to contribute so that voices, stories and myths buried by western perspective can be considered. Our study rely on the theories of Homi K. Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Jacques Derrida, Walter Mignolo and Ana Pizarro, who have helped to think about the cultural identity, not as a fixed and homogeneous essence, which remains unchanged outside history and culture, but as a process that is in constant dialogue and transformation, especially in the nowadays world where globalization, the media and media technology increasingly require a larger movement of the subject intersection and exchange of experiences and values. Therefore, the main objective of this work is to rethink the processes of identity, moving away from the exotic, savage and uncivilized approach that the travel literature of European chroniclers, mostly conceived us in their reports, as well as other texts that aimed to think Amazonian culture. From the experiences of the narrator of the analyzed work, we elaborated a discussion on how different cultures can apprehend from their differences, get mixed among themselves, sometimes clashing against each other, but also complementing each other.