História e literatura regional: o Xingu paraense nos escritos literários (2010-2011)

Abstract

The present work seeks to analyze the literary works authored by Wilton Borges and Renato Soares, respectively titled Entroncamento do Xingu in the times of colonization (2011), by the first author, and Chronicles Xinguaras Stories to laugh and cry (2007) and Stories and Secrets of forest peoples (2010), the second author. The works produced in the two thousand years refer to a temporality of the 1960s and 1980s, a time reminiscent of the authors in the works on canvas and that allows to understand the reception of the transformations that occurred in the South of the State of Pará, part of the Brazilian East Amazon from the process of territorialization and occupation of this space. In the course of the work, some dialogues were developed to help guide the research and narrative of this text, such as the relationship between history and literature, history and literature in the Brazilian Amazon, history and region, and the relationship between history, nature and memory . These dialogues are anchored in the theoretical field of Cultural History, considering that this work focuses on the way literary agents interpret and represent the world, especially the closest region, especially, triggering elements of culture and memory which represent spatial and social constructions. The productions of the mentioned authors refer to the region constituted between the Xingu and Araguaia rivers, in which the importance of both rivers in the process of construction of the cities in this part of the Brazilian Eastern Amazon, like the city of Xinguara, is highlighted in the literary productions by its strategic positioning between rivers.