The Backlands are Everywhere but not in the City

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_6582
dc.title	The Backlands are Everywhere but not in the City. Discourses on sertão and the City in Brazilian Literature
dc.contributor.author	Correia dos Santos Carolina
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2021/116/o-sertao-e-o-mundo-senza-la-citta-ma-o-sertao-esta/
dc.description.abstract	This article analyses two examples of Brazilian literature, João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande sertão: veredas and João Antônio’s “Abraçado ao meu rancor”. Whereas the first narrates the sertão, “Abraçado ao meu rancor” is entirely dedicated to the metropolis of São Paulo. This article aims to display a series of resemblances between the two pieces that tend to disrupt an old but still active axiom of Brazilian social thought: the dichotomy between the country (sertão) and the city. The analysis begins by building up the distinction between the sertão and the city as it appears in most Brazilian literature and literary criticism. This opposition leads to a series of other constitutive polarities, such as development/underdevelopment, nature/culture, faith/reason. Through a reading of Rosa’s novel and Antônio’s story, this article will then juxtapose the sertão and the city showing how oppositions that have sustained so much of the Brazilian social thought are categories that need to be deconstructed.
dc.relation.ispartof	Rassegna iberistica
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 44 \| Issue 116 \| December 2021
dc.issued	2021-12-06
dc.dateAccepted	2021-08-02
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-02-10
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2037-6588
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2021/17/005
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Brazilian literature
dc.subject	Brazilian literature
dc.subject	Brazilian social thought
dc.subject	Brazilian social thought
dc.subject	Critica letteraria
dc.subject	Critica letteraria
dc.subject	Favela
dc.subject	Favela
dc.subject	Literary criticism
dc.subject	Literary criticism
dc.subject	Pensiero sociale brasiliano
dc.subject	Pensiero sociale brasiliano
dc.subject	Sertão
dc.subject	Sertão
dc.subject	\| Letteratura brasiliana
dc.subject	\| Letteratura brasiliana

Research Article
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Discourses on sertão and the City in Brazilian Literature

Carolina Correia dos Santos Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

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This article analyses two examples of Brazilian literature, João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande sertão: veredas and João Antônio’s “Abraçado ao meu rancor”. Whereas the first narrates the sertão, “Abraçado ao meu rancor” is entirely dedicated to the metropolis of São Paulo. This article aims to display a series of resemblances between the two pieces that tend to disrupt an old but still active axiom of Brazilian social thought: the dichotomy between the country (sertão) and the city. The analysis begins by building up the distinction between the sertão and the city as it appears in most Brazilian literature and literary criticism. This opposition leads to a series of other constitutive polarities, such as development/underdevelopment, nature/culture, faith/reason. Through a reading of Rosa’s novel and Antônio’s story, this article will then juxtapose the sertão and the city showing how oppositions that have sustained so much of the Brazilian social thought are categories that need to be deconstructed.

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Dec. 6, 2021

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Aug. 2, 2021

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Feb. 10, 2021

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Keywords: Critica letteraria • Pensiero sociale brasiliano • Brazilian social thought • Sertão • Favela • Brazilian literature • Literary criticism • | Letteratura brasiliana

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