Nas páginas do romance, nas páginas da história: A Lenda dos Cem e as mobilizações dos indígenas Xukuru do Ororubá, habitantes em Pesqueira e Poção/PE (1988-2001).

Abstract

We researched the relationship between the novel “A Lenda dos Cem” (1995) by Pernambuco writer Gilvan Lemos, with the mobilizations of the indigenous people Xukuru do Ororubá in the 1990s, in the process of retaking their dispossessed territory. The time frame is between 1988 and 2001. The actions of the Xukuru do Ororubá indigenous people in the Constituent Assembly, 1988; the promulgation of the 1988 Federal Constitution and approval by SUDENE of the Vale do Ipojuca Agricultural Project on the dispossessed lands, generating mobilizations and, consequently, the beginning of the demarcation process by FUNAI, finalized in 2001 with the homologation of the territory. The objective was to discuss how the content narrated in the novel not only reproduces a stigmatized, folkloric prejudiced view of the Indians in the Northeast as "caboclos", "miscigenados", “mixed" and on the way to extinction through integration. This narrative elected the Xukuru people of Ororubá to reinforce the verisimilitude of the novel by highlighting them as Xacuris. The relationship existed because of the year of publication, 1995, the height of the process of retaking of the territory by the indigenous people. The narrative of the novel, when contextualized, is ostensibly in favor of the ranchers and against the indigenous people, because it is a trivial narrative, especially because it emphasizes the process of miscegenation and ethnic erasure. It reproduces longstanding stereotypes. Methodologically, we analyze the novel by means of sociological criticism , relating internal and external aspects, and discourse analysis AD, to get a broad view of the novel and its relations. Together with the studies, in the area of Anthropology and History, the "new indigenous history", established new paradigms about the history of Indians in Brazil, especially in the Northeast. It allowed us to think about the place of the novelist's discourses in constructing a vision of an indigenous people in Pernambuco, delegitimizing the demands of the territory. The research consolidated problematizations to deconstruct mistaken negative repercussions in the social imaginary about the indigenous peoples in the Northeast, as folkloric and acculturated, questioning the nonexistence of indigenous peoples in the region. Demonstrating the protagonism of the Xukuru do Ororubá people in the conquest of territory, through the adversities historically opposed to the Indians in the Northeast Region.