Paulo Jacob’s Amazon: the frontiers of the “frontier-mundi”
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Amazon, border, Paulo Jacob, rubber, Bertha Becker, cabocloAbstract
The work of Paulo Jacob (1921-2004), a writer from Manaus of Sephardic Jewish origin, offers us an extremely rich picture of the Brazilian Amazon as a dynamic space during the rubber boom, which was coveted and neglected at the same time and at the core of both geopolitical and economic interests at the national and international level. Within this context, the novel Vila Rica das Queimadas (1976), the focus of our study, allows us to interpret the Amazonian territory as the geopoetic allegory of the border. In order to do so, the concept of “fronteira-mundi”, proposed by the Brazilian geographer Bertha Becker, will be used as the main key in the analysis attempting to understand the complexity of the Jacobian Amazon, which is an in-between space between the local and the global, the origin and the future, embodying the Brazilian identity-building challenge and that of his own narrator, Nagib. Inspired by the bordering identity of the caboclo, Jacob will sketch a solution to this dilemma.
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