Nightly Landscapes: Fiction, Legend and History in the Backcountry Narratives of Coelho Neto
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.25.1.27-49Keywords:
Coelho Neto, landscape, Brazilian literary regionalism, Brazilian national identity, supernaturalAbstract
This article analyses the backcountry fiction of Coelho Neto. It aims at identifying the formation of the thematic and aesthetic conventions of Brazilian regionalist literature through his prose’s nightly images. The study considers that such images are conveyed throughout the writer’s fictional production via landscape descriptions and supernatural narratives. The former is an essential dimension of his production since it defines a clear sensibility towards nature evoking sensory memories of the physical environment. On the other hand, the latter incorporates fundamental themes of his rural fiction - sexuality; economic exploitation of the territory and miscegenation – examining Brazil’s formation through images of colonization and slavery. In conclusion, the writer merged imagination and history and created a unique representation of the itinerary of Brazilian society over time.
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