AMAZONIAN LITERATURE: PLOTS, COMPLEXITIES AND REPRESENTATIVENESS IN BRAZILIAN LITERATURE

Abstract

The present work aims to foster a discussion about the literature produced in and about the Amazon, discussing peculiar elements of the largest tropical region on the planet, as well as the diversity and cultural plurality characterized by the identity hybridism that makes the region one of the most diverse on the planet. The challenge of discussing diversity, otherness and cultural differences in Amazonian literature requires, therefore, an approach with theorists who suggest this challenge, such as: Homi K. Bhabha (2010), Antoine Compagnon (2007), Marjorie Perloff (2013) Franz Fanon (2008), Walter Benjamin (1994), Antônio Candido (1995), among others who propose the challenge of thinking about difference and cultural diversity. Dealing with literature from a Postcolonialist perspective in the Amazon goes far beyond discussing time and space. Issues of territorialization, borders, and hybrid discourses are paths that point to a new look at the region with the greatest diversity in the Americas. Rivers, peoples, cultures and forests make up the scenario of the Amazonian imaginary, which throughout its colonization had been carefully elaborated from the perspective and interests of the European colonizer. Analyzing Amazonian literature with a decolonization perspective in narratives that demonstrate the reality experienced by those who occupy the Amazonian space has become emerging and of paramount relevance to the literature produced in the region.