Essa terra me chama: uma análise do sujeito migrante em Essa Terra

Abstract

As time goes by and modernity consolidates, many social, economic, and cultural factors have become more complex, such as the process of migration. However, the act of migrating and the migrant itself have been represented in various ways in social manifestations, including literature. The objective of this study is to analyze how Northeastern migration and the migrant subject, affected by modernity, are represented in the novel "Essa Terra" by Antônio Torres. To achieve this goal, the dialogue between internal migration and cultural identity in the Northeast was examined, establishing a cause-and-effect relationship in these phenomena. Thus, it is observed that Northeastern migration to the major urban centers in the Southeast is also a result of the fragmentation process of the Northeasterner's identity. In this undergraduate thesis, based on bibliographic research, we used as theoretical framework the works of Bosi (1996), Genette (1979), Gancho (2004), Todorov (2011), and Candido (2000) to analyze the narrative categories of the text and relate them to the process of narrative fragmentation. Therefore, it is verified that "Essa Terra" exhibits a structural homology to the migration process and displays a realistic representation of the migrant in the aesthetic realm.