Da invenção à ficcionalização: construções imagético-discursivas sobre o sertão

Abstract

Understanding the hinterlands as a geographic, political, symbolic and literary space, that is, multiple, which crosses literature continuously, we propose to discuss, in this article, the construction of images and discourses that have crystallized throughout history about the northeastern hinterlands, understanding the contribution of literary narrative to the invention of this category in the national imagination. We will seek to identify these limiting borders, which rose around the hinterlands scenes, relying, above all, on the criticism made by historian Albuquerque Júnior in his speech on borders, whose archaeological and genealogical work is guided by Foucauldian assumptions. We bet that the multiplicity, as well as the impossibility of definition, that appears around the hinterlands, points to an empty space, capable of producing new images, as we found in the writing of Ronaldo Correia de Brito. His fiction allows for a testimonial reading, radicalizing and exposing what is impossible to represent in reality, at the same time as it gives form to it, via aesthetics.