Leitura da nação em Tobias Barreto : uma ressignificação de Dias e Noites

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Monique Santos de
• Orientador(a): Gomes, Carlos Magno Santos
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Letras
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Literatura brasileira; Poesia; Poesia brasileira; Literatura sergipana; Patriotismo na literatura; Heróis na literatura; Tobias Barreto; Dias e Noites (Tobias Barreto); Intelectual; Nação; Herói; Intellectual; Nation; Heroes
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5681

This dissertation, called Leitura da nação em Tobias Barreto: uma ressignificação de Dias e Noites, presents an overview of the political issues surrounding the nation's rep-resentation in the poems of this writer from Sergipe. We contrast the idealized vision of the romantic poets with the questioner way of Tobias Barreto in his Dias e Noites work (1881), which brings together his texts published throughout his literary career. The excerpt of this imaginary in this research is analyzed by three aspects: the intellectual role; romantic themes; and the debate about the country’s volunteer as a national hero. In his poems, this hero has two faces: anonymous, represented by a poor and former slave volunteer, and legitimized, represented by the brazilian military commanders. Methodologically, it was developed a bibliographic research with emphasis on historio-graphical studies about the reception of Tobias Barreto’s work by Sílvio Romero, Anto-nio Candido and Armando Gens. The last one proposes a cultural approach to under-stand the literary legacy of this writer. Concerning the theoretical concepts, we explore the reflections on the nation imaginary in the history of the brazilian literature from Nicholas Sevcenko and Lúcia Helena, who approach the concept of writer and intellec-tual. Regarding the nation category, we take into consideration the redefinition of the term given by Benedict Anderson and Homi Bhabha, who propose an extension of this imaginary, questioning the homogeneous view of the dominant groups. Didactically, this dissertation is divided into three chapters. In the first, we have an approach about the intellectual work of Tobias Barreto, who rejects the view of the Rio de Janeiro court and questions monarchical government policies both in lyrical texts and critical essays. In the second one, we present the nation imaginary during the nineteenth century and we analyze how the author of Dias e Noites retakes it in his poetry. In the third, we prioritize the study about the nation's image in the patriotic poems of Tobias Barreto, contemplating the debate on the Paraguay War’s heroes. With this research, we believe that we are not only expanding the reception possibilities of a work seen as less valued in our literature; but also reviewing the place of an intellectual who often was classified as romantic writer or evaluated from his social status and ethnicity, with little regard to his critical attitude in relation to the organization of brazilian society of the nineteenth century, including the monarchy.