Makunaima e Nambalisita: representação dos mitos e poéticas da alteridade

Abstract

The research approaches the representations of native peoples in the Brazilian and Angolan Literature through a comparative analysis between authors and works of these territories. We reflect about the changes in the understanding of the concepts of representation and otherness, and on the adaptations of the mythological narratives through an interdisciplinary approach that privileges the relations between literary theory, anthropology, and the semiotics of images. From this selected material a corpus of works centered in the native universe is extracted so as to reflect on the way in which the modern discourse in charge of intellectuals of different cultural areas values or neglects the native element. We contextualize the works within the scope of the literary and cultural movements that integrated the autochthonous peoples at the center of their intellectual reflections, especially the Brazilian Romanticism and Modernism, and the movements of modernization of the African Literatures of Portuguese Language, specially in Angola. From this broad plane, we direct the research to the strict plan of the representation of the myths of Makunaíma and Nambalisita, whose analysis presents itself as the central point of the interface between literary criticism, ethnography, and cinematographic production. Next, we investigate the ways in which the tension between identity and alterity permeates the representation of the native character in contemporary works, especially in the authors Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (ANG) and Bernardo Carvalho (BR)