Confluences between margins and spatialities in Luciano Serafim and Guimarães Rosa

Abstract

The article, of comparative nature, reflects on the notions of space and frontier, in the short stories “A outra margem”, by Luciano Serafim (2003), and “A terceira margem do rio”, by Guimarães Rosa (2001). Thus we will elucidate the very idea of “margin”, in order to perceive how this notion is configured from the places of enunciation of the objects under study. Based on a perspective of latin american cultural critique, the article seeks to highlight the aspects of critical regionalism and cultural identity in the literature produced in Mato Grosso do Sul, taking as a theoretical contribution especially the studies as to region developed by Bourdieu (1989), as well as the important contributions of Kaliman (1994), Santiago (2000) and Santos (2008, 2009) about regional and cultural studies. Later and finally, a contrastive reading of the “margins” (as a concept and as presented in the narratives), adopting a focus of Bachelard’s phenomenological studies (1997, 2008) to shed light on the spatialities represented in the stories and the respective enunciations of these places.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/abriluff2018n21a505.