Ideologias imperialistas em o grande gastby.

Abstract

This research has as its main objective to analyse, from a post-colonial perspective, the novel The great Gatsby (1925), by the Amerian writer F. scott Fitzgerald, having as theoretical support the works of Bonnici (2000; 2005), Fanon (2008), Spivak (2010), among others. In this work, a classic of the American literature, it will be seen how the white American of high middle class behaves in a society marked by class, racial, cultural em religous diversity, in a contexto in which the United States are represented as superior, as well as some European countries, diferente from some nations and peoples seen as inferior, as a result of imperialista ideologies. It will be shown how regions and countries are considered as margins, such as the Caribbean and Canada, for example, and are portrayed in an ambiguous way. It will also be discussed issues related to the otherness of foreign characters, who suffer prejudice from American characters, from the narrator and the text itself. Thus, this research can be considered pioneer, since analysis of this novel from the perspective used here are not common.