Processos culturais e literários na configuração das personagens Brás Cubas e Napumoceno

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Ana Maria Lange [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/113806
• topic: Assis, Machado de 1839-1908; Literatura brasileira; Literatura comparada; Literatura cabo-verdiana; Literature

In the last years, the comparative study of the literary in Portuguese language has been gradually achieving focus on the literary criticism. Despite these advances, the comparison between Brazilian and Cape Verdean literature still represents a small part in these studies, moreover, it is usually restricted to the literary confluence between Cape Verdean authors and the Brazilian writers considered as regionalists, or modernists, which have influenced the Cape Verde movement called claridoso. This dissertation, in opposition to these trends, aims at analyzing the configuration of the main characters of the novels The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1881), written by the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, and The last will and testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo. (1989), by the Cape Verdean writer Germano Almeida, emphasizing the representation of the bourgeois figure in a context where there are the coexistence of the political-ideological contradictions in the Brazilian and Cape Verdean societies, coming from the transformation processes they have gone through. In order to fulfill this purpose, it is used the theoretical and the methodological critical studies from Machado and Germano Almeida, as well as some of the literary productions of both authors. Moreover, these writers take part in the formative literary framework in the national systems of their respective countries, highlighting the emergence of a national project to consolidate the cultural identity of the countries, increased during the production of the novels of this study. Therefore, it is intended, through the analysis of the similarities and differences between the Brás Cubas and Napumoceno characters, to identify some literary-historical-cultural movements in these countries with colonial legacies, such as political independence and reflection on the national identity, in order to observe how the external elements are used internally in the literary ...