Identidad cultural en prosa y poesía“Os sertões” y “Cantares gallegos”

Resum

This thesis studies one of the most important aspects of the books “Os Sertões” and “Cantares gallegos”: the relationship between literature, culture and reality, as well as the strength of these writings in the construction of Brazilian and Galician cultural identities. It is structured in three chapters: The first focuses the cultural identity in the modern period; the relationships between cultural identity, state, nationalism, identities, culture, alterity and language are discussed. The second chapter exposes the the main sociocultural movements that influenced, in the nineteenth century, “Os Sertões” and “Cantares gallegos”. The third chapter contains the biographies of Euclides da Cunha and of Rosalía de Castro and the literary analysis of the “Os Sertões” and “Cantares gallegos”, towards the constructions of the building identities Sertaneja and Galician identities. As accessory themes we have the presence of music in “Cantares gallegos”, mysticism, as well as the approach of “Cantares gallegos” with Brazilian romanticism. In “Os Sertões” the questions of time, space, language and stylistic resources will be discussed in addition to their trinary composition. The main conclusion: fiction and poetry have virtues within the universe of cultural identity; “Os Sertões” and “Cantares gallegos”, almost innovative, are in harmony with their historical moments and responded to the wishes of their peoples in the eagerness for belonging; either in the rescue of the Galician language and culture or in the rediscovery of the sertanejo as an ethnic element representative of the Brazilian people.