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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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) |
| Repositorio: | Terra Roxa e Outras Terras: Revista de Estudos Literários |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/24859 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/terraroxa/article/view/24859 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Guimarães Rosa Tragic Alterity Trágico Alteridade |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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