O século XIX e a ânsia de espaço na literatura brasileira

Abstract

The historiography of Brazilian literature is constituted both from authors and aspects that have been privileged over time, constituting a canon, as well as some works that were excluded from the great panels, especially in the 19th century approach, at a decisive moment in the formation of literature. Brazilian economy, according to Antonio Candido (2007). However, several excluded ones could have contributed to illuminate different aspects of those that appear more frequently, as we seek to show in this work. Thus, in this work I focus on some of the “bandeirante” writers, well beyond the canon, who ventured, many times, to write, publish and represent unknown lands to the readers: Lourenço Amazonas, with his novel Simá – romance do alto Amazonas (1857). ); Maria Firmina dos Reis, with her novel Úrsula (1859); the novel A fome (1890), by Rodolfo Teófilo. In addition to them, four short stories from the Anthology of Romantic Tales (2012) will be discussed. As a preparation for the analyses, I initially present a brief archeology of the construction of nationality and then a small overview of how space conditions, in nineteenth-century Brazilian literature, the type of plot that is projected there, in addition to the approach of two canonical writers. , José de Alencar and Machado de Assis, who point to different representations of space.