Monstrous spaces: Gothic in fictionalization of Pedra Bonita and Canudos

Authors

  • Hélder Brinate Castro Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Mestrando em Letras Vernáculas
  • Godofredo de Oliveira Neto Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Professor Titular de Literatura Brasileira

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v23i47.33609

Keywords:

gothic poetics, loci horribiles, Brazilian literature, messianic movements.

Abstract

Despite of what Brazilian literary criticism and historiography of 19th and 20th centuries declare, Gothic can be found in Brazilian literature. Recent studies have shown that regionalist fiction is one of the most developed proses in Brazilian terror, horror and thriller literature, characterizing the up-country, specially the sertões, as an authentic locus horribilis. In the novels O reino encantado: crônica sebastianista (1878), by Araripe Júnior, and Os Jagunços: novela sertaneja (1898), by Afonso Arinos, their narrators, to describe the messianic movements of Pedra Bonita and Canudos respectively, use a horrifying and macabre language to turn the Brazilian Northeastern landscape into a gloomy and obscure scenery. Both narratives explore the space not only as the stage in which the atrocities of the plots are practiced and suffered, but also as the main narrative element that constitutes an oppressive and fatal atmosphere. While O reino encantado describes the place of Pedra Bonita’s rituals to evoke feelings of horror and fear, Os Jagunços uses the sertaneja nature to demonstrate the republican soldiers’ terror in front of the canudenses.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2018n47a1185

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Author Biographies

Hélder Brinate Castro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Mestrando em Letras Vernáculas

Hélder Brinate Castro é mestrando em Letras Vernáculas (Literatura Brasileira) pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) e bolsista CNPq sob orientação do Prof. Dr. Godofredo de Oliveira Neto (UFRJ) e sob coorientação do Prof. Dr. Júlio França (UERJ).

Godofredo de Oliveira Neto, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Professor Titular de Literatura Brasileira

Godofredo de Oliveira Neto é doutor em Letras Vernáculas pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), professor titular nível 1 na cadeira de Literatura Brasileira desta mesma instituição e pesquisador associado ao Centro de Pesquisas Sobre Países Lusófonos da Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (CREPAL).

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Published

2018-12-29

How to Cite

Castro, H. B., & Oliveira Neto, G. de. (2018). Monstrous spaces: Gothic in fictionalization of Pedra Bonita and Canudos. Gragoatá, 23(47), 910-925. https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v23i47.33609

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 47 (2018): Monstrous Organization

Section

Literature Articles

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