No rastro de perna solta em "O KARAÍBA", uma história do pré -Brasil, de Daniel Munduruku

Abstract

This qualitative and descriptive study aims to analyze the character Perna Solta in Daniel Munduruku’s indigenous novel O Karaíba, uma história do pré-Brasil (2010). Its specific objectives are: to explain the invention of the “Indian” as a hero in Indianist literature; to highlight theoretical conceptions about the category of hero; and to discuss the role of Perna Solta from the ethno-sociological perspective of Egon Schaden (1989). To achieve these objectives, it is structured in the following chapters: “‘Indian’ in sight: the cartography of the colonizer”; “From the agora to the clearing: the hero under multiple gazes”; and “The faces of Perna Solta in the narrative space”. Thus, we base our arguments on the following authors and their respective contributions. In dealing with the notions of Eurocentrism and Orientalism, we rely on Neide Gondim (1994), Ella Shoat and Robert Stam (2006). Antônio Paulo Graça (1998) provides us with conceptual elements for the observation of Indianist poetics. In our reflections on indigenous literature, we draw on Julie Dorrico (2020), Graça Graúna (2013), Daniel Munduruku (2010, 2011, 2012, 2019), Maria Inês de Almeida and Sônia Queiroz (2004), among other authors. Finally, we problematize the category of hero in the typologies developed by Mikhail Bakhtin (1997), Joseph Campbell (1949), and Flávio Kothe (2000); we develop it from the perspective of ethnosociology, based on the studies of Egon Schaden (1988)