Entidades e identidades no diálogo entre seres fantásticos das narrativas orais tradicionais da Amazônia e dos RPGS

Abstract

The Amazon, besides being a geographic region, is a space of traditional civilizations and their cultures. Several societies flourished and developed in this space, and came in contact with others from other parts of the world, and in this place they came to create another variety of thoughts that are concretized in narratives that continue today. In Literature, it has become a setting for the most diverse manifestations of literary art, and in History it constitutes a framework rich in the phenomena of humanity. Role-playing games, RPGs, are part of a genre that emerged in the late sixties in the USA, which presents in its vast material reflections of different historical and literary moments. His contributions are noticeable in several printed materials aimed at practitioners of this narrative activity and other medias. The present thesis aims to trace the dialogues that the RPG printed texts have with some oral narratives collected by the IFNOPAP Project, which aims to expose the resistant imagery in the local identity about what they understand as mythological reality. The focus of the work is on the texts that report fantastic creatures present in the testimonies of several subjects that were questioned by the researchers. The reports are placed in comparison with the texts coming from books of narrative games, something that aims to present how traditional popular narratives still resist time and are absorbed by a genre proper to modernity. For a complete perception, an outline of the course of studies of oral narratives in Brazil and other parts of the world, relevant to the objectives of the thesis, will be drawn. In addition to presenting the context of how role-playing games emerged, it will also be presented how the narratives present in the works can be perceived as appropriate literary texts for interpretation and analysis proper to Literary Theory. From these premises, it will be confirmed that fictional entities will be at the side of the construction of the identity of these peoples, based on the material of the authors who contributed to the IFNOPAP Project. Finally, in annex, the thesis will present a proposal that presents examples of how traditional oral narratives can be adapted for use as RPG scenarios, which will have their own characteristics to be used as a form of resistance and Amazonian expression.