Literatura e identidades: o regionalismo de Hugo de Carvalho Ramos

Abstract

This study is about Hugo de Carvalho Ramos work which is claimed in discussions related to nacionalism throughout the last years of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. He was considered a regionalist author who has presented a production of short stories which features are away from the orthodox romancist standard of that time. Furthermore, in his essays and criticism may be found deep considerations about the sentão and sertanejo within the representative national context. We also have researched Hugo s theoretical production and analyzed it with part of Monteiro Lobato s work, in which the author theorized about the same theme in the beginning of his production. In order to get on this analyses we have study the dialogism between some of Hugo s essays: O Interior Goiano , Populações Rurais , and Lobato s articles: Velha Praga , Urupês . We have pointed out the theoretical dialectic that is established between these two Brazilian writers in order to understand their questioning in relation to validate the regionalism practice and to style their types as figurative elements within the nationalist literature. Moreover, we aimed to analyze how the theoretical thinking was processed by both authors during their artistic production, thus, we have used some of Hugo s and Lobato s short stories.