Name: RIZIA LIMA OLIVEIRA
Publication date: 29/07/2019
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| PAULO ROBERTO DE SOUZA DUTRA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| FELIPE DE OLIVEIRA FIÚZA | External Examiner * |
| PAULO ROBERTO DE SOUZA DUTRA | Advisor * |
| WILBERTH CLAYTHON FERREIRA SALGUEIRO | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: It intends to approach the theme of childhood in João Guimarães Rosas work. The main child character that is analyzed is Guirigó, featured in Rosas critically-acclaimed
novel entitled Grande sertão: veredas, first published in 1956. Switching between
closer or more distant views, an investigation of other young characters in the authors
work completes this analysis in order to measure how the character Guirigó was
conceived. It will make possible to enlist similitudes and differences between the
character and how Brazilian childhood aspects are constituted (rather unequally, it
must be said). In spite of an extensive critical fortune upon the life and the work of João
Guimarães Rosa, the child character is very little explored by literary critics. Therefore,
it aims to present an inaugural study about the character called Guirigó. This study will
allow us to go deeper on the research of his constitutive characteristics as a result of
life in the sertanejo environment marked by misery and violence also taking into
consideration not only his physical, psychological or social aspects, but also the fact
that he had a black origin. The analysis is based on Walter Benjamins concepts of
childhood and its social function; on Jaime Ginzburgs concepts of violence; on Vânia
Resendes concepts about the childs role. Some other scholars that study João
Guimarães Rosas work such as Antonio Candido, Walnice Galvão, Willi Bolle and
Leonardo Arroyo will be basis for a deep analysis of the novel. The main objective is
to contribute with the studies of Grande sertão: veredas specifically when it comes to
suggesting a comparative look upon Rosas child characters.
Keywords: Childhood. Grande sertão: veredas. João Guimarães Rosa
