The jaguarete’s tragic identity

This article intends to present a little analysis of Guimarães Rosa’s short story “Meu tio o iauaretê”, showing some traces of Greek tragedy in its composition, mainly when referring to a representation of other, as it occurs to Dionysus, the Lydian foreigner from Euripides’ The Bacchae. Perfoming t...

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Autor: Lima, Marcos Hidemi de
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2016
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL)
Repositório:Terra Roxa e Outras Terras: Revista de Estudos Literários
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/24859
Acesso em linha:https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/terraroxa/article/view/24859
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Palavra-chave:Guimarães Rosa
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Resumo:This article intends to present a little analysis of Guimarães Rosa’s short story “Meu tio o iauaretê”, showing some traces of Greek tragedy in its composition, mainly when referring to a representation of other, as it occurs to Dionysus, the Lydian foreigner from Euripides’ The Bacchae. Perfoming this other, the main character lives an identity crisis: as a white man, he just incurs against the Judaic-Christian religion; as an indian, he corroborates some white man values; and as an animal, he confronts his human nature.