Questões identitárias em Alfredo: uma análise de Chove nos Campos de Cachoeira, de Dalcídio Jurandir

Abstract

This dissertation have goal to analyze the identification process in Alfredo, in the book Chove nos campos de Cachoeira (1998), because have a white father, this Major Alberto and black mother, Dona Amélia, Alfredo feels yourself conflict and anguish, at the same time being ashamed of her mother and not recognizing himself as a white boy. The identities in Alfredo, visualized like processes and not products, which can be interpreted from the concept in-between, obtained by Homi Bhabha (2013) in The Location of culture, besides that, this paper will substantiate in concept identity by Zilá Bernd (2011) in Literature and national identity and Marli Furtado (2002) in your thesis Universo derruído e corrosão do herói em Dalcídio Jurandir in which the analysis of the characters with their respective psychological dramas will be fundamental to the understanding of the work studied. Using the methodology the theoretical-interpretive reading, propose understand how Alfredo will yourself understand what we will call ethnic-cultural hybridity. For this reason, this dissertation is divided in three sections: the first denominated “Chalet- island an ethnic-racial metaphor of Marajó”, will present the concepts and unfolding of word identity, that concepts will be understand the boy in training. This second section is “Wooden chalet: a meeting with the characters” will aim an analysis of the characters who inhabit the wooden chalet, place where Alfredo lives, where find Major Alberto, Dona Amélia, Eutanázio and Mariinha, realizing that each space allows the boy to reflect on his social place. And finally, the third section, so-called "Courtyard- border: this space of erasure and silence” will discuss about Alfredo and yourself restlessness, identity and mainly reflection before their space in society.