"A arte que faz história”: uma narrativa de identidades no romance Viva o povo brasileiro

Abstract

The present work presents a study about the discussions that surround the process of formation of the Brazilian nation, through the literary representation of the novel Viva o Povo Brasileiro, by the Bahian writer João Ubaldo Ribeiro, whose fiction brings significant contributions in thinking the question of cultural identities from the perspective of construction / representation. We analyze how the novel makes its reading of Brazil and its people and establish through intertextuality between fictional episodes and historical experiences a critique of historical discourses and their counterversions in a narrative that presents multiple forms of discursive approaches in the problematization of our complex identity. The theoretical supports that guide this work are based on the perspective of Cultural History in dialogue with its fields of approach: anthropology, sociology, social history, history of language, literary theory, through the contributions of Roger Chartier, Linda Hutcheon, Peter Burke, Michel of Certeau, Sturt Hall, Antônio Candido, Alfredo Bosi among others, having as basic concept the notion of representation, central category in the interfaces of Literature and History, considering that it is with him and from it that the connection between the real and the fictional, since the historical and literary narratives are a linguistic construct inserted in the field of representations.