Memory and Space of the city of Manaus in the chronicle ‘Dried margins of the city’ (2013), by Milton Hatoum
The Brazilian Amazônia, North region of the country, specifically, Manaus city, provided great part of the literaryproduction of Milton Hatoum. An example are the works: Tale of a certain Orient (1989), The brothers (2000), Ashesof the Amazon (2005) and A lonely lurking (2013), in which we understan...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Letras Raras |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs2.revistas.editora.ufcg.edu.br:article/1130 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://revistas.editora.ufcg.edu.br/index.php/RLR/article/view/1130 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Espaço Memória Manaus Milton Hatoum |
| Resumo: | The Brazilian Amazônia, North region of the country, specifically, Manaus city, provided great part of the literaryproduction of Milton Hatoum. An example are the works: Tale of a certain Orient (1989), The brothers (2000), Ashesof the Amazon (2005) and A lonely lurking (2013), in which we understand Manaus city as a constructed space andevoked several times by the memorialist discourse of the author. In this way, we aim to discuss the evolution ofManaus city space, from the relation among the memories constructed in childhood and the return to the samespaces in adulthood, through a contrastive and explanatory analysis of the chronological time, inferring yet about theplace of memory in the process of the city reconstruction. Thus, this article has as corpus the chronicle Dried marginsof the city (2013), part of the collection A lonely lurking. The theoretical discussions were based on Assmann (2008;2011), Halbwachs (2006), Bachelard (1993) and Tuan (2012), among others, in whom we supported the reflectionsabout memory and space. We aim that the discussions may reflect about the manauense city space, understood bythe narrator as a movement of decline, through the relation between past and present, from the moment of return tothe spaces of happiness to comprehend the effects of modernity over the man and over the city. |
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