As imagens do sertão na literatura nacional: o projeto da modernização territorial brasileira a partir dos romances regionalistas da geração de 1930

Abstract

Guided in the possible intersection between Art and Science more precisely, between Geography and Literature , this research aims to provide an analysis of how the idea of Sertão is discursively constructed along of the most representative opus of the Second Modernist Generation s also known as the Generation of 1930 regionalist novels. Considering legitimate the relationships between literary texts and spatial awareness (and production), and conceiving the literates as intellectuals and expressive individuals (GOLDMANN, 1979), it becomes possible to construct a panel about the mode of evaluative broach of the national Sertão (positive, negative or beyond these dualistic versions images), related to the national-state projects of formation and modernization of the Brazilian territory which, largely, were treated, during de Vargas Era (1930-1945), under the badge of Sertão s (or hinterland s) modernization. Being configured more as a condition (a basic qualifying imposed, implying in the valuation process of given locational situations) than a strictly place (localizable terrestrial materiality, which can be defined and mapped), the Sertão hosts, along the History, different evaluative discourses about the space (geographical ideologies), usually, but not necessarily, negatives. Therefore, nothing ingenuous, the backcountry qualifying indicates, thus, a qualifying of some terrestrial spots, always accompanied by projects (historically established in slogans such as settlement, civilization or modernization), aiming the incorporation of such spaces to the scope of the national economy. Based on this assumption and pursuing the goal listed above, were selected and analyzed representative opus of canonical authors Rachel de Queiroz, Graciliano Ramos, José Lins do Rego and Jorge Amado of the literary-historical moment in focus, intending to scrutinize in which extension these writers forged images about theirs literary hinterlands that, in whole or in part, justify the interventionist intentions under the signs of modernization to the consolidation of a central State in the Brazilian territory.