Zonas de contato e transculturação em gonçalves dias: um diálogo entre etnografia e ficção no brasil e oceania, os timbiras & I-Juca Pirama

Abstract

This article aims to perform a critical analysis of the monograph Brazil and Oceania in dialogue with the poems Os Timbiras and I-Juca Pirama. The investigation seeks to highlight how these records influence or depart from the construction of history and the myths of a nation. Such works challenge hegemonic narratives not only from the colonial period, but also those that span the nineteenth century and persist in the present. The method adopted is bibliographical research and documentary analysis, focusing on sources that discuss the context of Gonçalves Dias's ethnographic and literary works. From that perspective, the work seeks to break with the unambiguous vision of a European effort to describe the Other, validating, in turn, the symbolic and cultural construction of transculturation. Thus, the analysis focuses on the contact zones that are established between the discourses of the official history of Brazilian colonization and the production of Gonçalves Dias.