BATISTA, César de França.
Abstract:
The main objective of this study is to analyze through a historiographical perspective the plausible representations of rural patriarchy produced in the literary work Fogo Morto (1943). In the light of authors such as Pesavento (2004), we realize that as long as epistemological issues are respected, history and literature can act harmoniously in carrying out a research. Subsequently, the concept of the structure
patriarchy in rural areas was much debated by sociological essays written during the 1930s, such as Casa-Grande & Senzala (1933) by Gilberto Freyre and Raízes do Brasil (1936) by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, which seek to explain the continuities and discontinuities of this system and how it was founded. Parallel to this, the regionalist novels of the 1930s emerged as strong products of the memory of this social system in a
context in which the country experiences the ambiguity between the traditional and the modern. José Lins do Rego emerges as one of the greatest exponents of this current, his productions are formulated as a rescue of regional daily memories of the rural patriarchal system and its singularities. Influenced by the historical context of his literary effervescence between the 1930s and 1940s and his social place as a "grandson of sugar", the novelist produces in this
novel clippings of a rural sugar society in decline, providing a possible source for cultural analysis of this phenomenon. As a theoretical contribution in this regard, we mainly use the authors Albuquerque Júnior (2011), Candido (2006), Castello (2001), Coutinho (2011) as a basis.
