Banca de DEFESA: MARIA CLARA LEADEBAL CELESTINO

Literary fabric, geographic embroidery: body, land and mimesis in Torto Arado

mimesis, literature, geography, body, land.

Published by the publisher Todavia in 2019, the novel Torto Arado soon acquired national and international notoriety through awards and translations. Written by Itamar Vieira, it is a work marked by the protagonism of two black women whose agricultural women in the interior of Brazil bear with them as marks of a people abandoned to their own fate in the course of the long process (still in full swing) of conquering rights after the abolition of slavery in 1888. In addition to the evident contemporaneity of a book of this nature, we were also attracted by the fact that it was written by a geographer trained as an employee of the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform in Bahia. The correspondence between these aspects and the strong social content of the novel, highlighted from beginning to end by the “landscape” aesthetic of its narrative, led us to analyze it as a literary fabric embroidered by — with geography for the categories body and land. In order to do so historically, historically we will focus on the theoretical concept worked by Luiz Costa Lima, whose reflection has broadened our understanding of the literary nature and its social and intellectual plots.