Entre cheias e vazantes : fios de história nas crônicas sobre a Gente Pantaneira (1998), de Abílio Leite de Barros

Abstract

This dissertation addresses the issues contained in the text, Gente Pantaneira: Crônicas da sua História (1998), by Abílio Leite de Barros, here converted into a research source. We understand that the chronicles express the author's relationship with society and the groups with which he interacts, and this expands the list of the questions arising from his writing. This, Literature as a source, it was seen as mediation linking to the theoretical field called Cultural Materialism, formulated by Raymond Williams (1979) and, for a better understanding of the relationships between the many spheres that are part of the author's social life , we seek to read the meanings and values, with the interpretative methodology formulated by Antônio Cândido, in Literature and Society (1985), in order to understand the sociopolitical aspects of the writer's literary production. A book of chronicles can bring an infinite number of revelations, they can be familiar plots, unusual events, narrated within the limits of exaggeration, romances or misadventures, it can also bring an obstinate search for the origin of things, including himself.