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- Abstract:
- In the analysis of Guimarães Rosa's ‘Meu tio o iauaretê’, a historian could professionally emphasize Rosa's context or the connections with society, politics, economy, culture and artistic expression. This essay aims to discuss the short story in terms of the Brazilian boundaries, not only those of political geography, but others such as the ethnic, the indigenous, the internal ones regarding the Indian who could metamorphose into a jaguar. It pays special attention to the use of dialogue, which recalls testimonies of rural subjects from the backlands in oral history, and to the loss of Indian identity, recovered as the jaguar, the totem of the Tacunyapé, the tribe of the caboclo’s mother.
- Na análise de "Meu tio o iauaretê" de Guimarães Rosa, um historiador poderia enfatizar profissionalmente o contexto de Rosa ou os vínculos com a sociedade, a política, a economia, a cultura e a expressão artística. Este ensaio tem como objetivo discutir o conto em termos das fronteiras brasileiras, não apenas as da geografia política, mas outras como as étnicas, as indígenas, ou as internas relativas ao índio que pode se metamorfosear em jaguar. O artigo presta especial atenção ao uso do diálogo, que lembra testemunhos de sujeitos rurais do sertão na história oral, e à perda de identidade indígena, recuperada como onça, totem da Tacunyapé, a tribo da mãe do caboclo.
Citation
Vangelista, Chiara,
"My Uncle the Iauaretê': a jaguar-man on the Brazilian borders"
(1997).
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/2wvc-km49
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BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
...BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature (ISSN: 2526-4885), founded in 1988, publishes scholarly articles on Brazilian literature and in Comparative Literature with a focus on Brazilian literature, as well as book reviews, interviews with writers, English-language translations of Brazilian literature …