The (re)invented word: by the paths of harmony and violence (a reading of stories by João Guimarães Rosa and José Luandino Vieira)

Author(s)

Cristiane Santana Silva

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2010-10-13

Examining board members

Salete de Almeida Cara; Rita de Cassia Natal Chaves; Carmen Lucia Tindó Ribeiro de Secco

• Advisor: Tania Celestino de Macêdo

Abstract

The presented dissertation has as purpose a literary reading through a comparative point of view between the shorts stories from the books: Primeiras Estórias, written by João Guimarães Rosa, published for the first time in 1962 and No antigamente, na vida, by José Luandino Vieira, published in 1974. It is started with a map of the pathway of (re)invention, set in childhood time. After that, it is checked the fiction process of the violence made up through the infantile characters marked by for two distinguished movements: through the comprehension of the presence of the colonial past and national identification, through the harmonic intent present in Guimarães Rosa writings and also through the disclosure of violence, that is thematic and structural José Luandino Vieira short stories. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 07/02704-4 - The (re)invented word: childhood and national imagination, by the paths of harmony and violence (a reading of João Guimarães Rosa and Luandino Vieira)
• Grantee: Cristiane Santana Silva
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master