Lua Cambará de Ronaldo Correia de Brito: uma lenda fastasmagórica da cultura sertaneja dos inhamuns na literatura brasileira do Nordeste.

Abstract

This essay presents a critical appreciation of the legend of Lua Cambará in the light of the perspective of Maureen Murdock’s heroic journey (2022), having as corpus the adaptation for the short story by Ronaldo Correia de Brito (2017). The objective was to identify and analyze the main moments of the narrative in which the personiication of the colonel is being incorporated into the behavior of the heroine, the path through which she becomes “lord” of land. It also aimed to observe the representation of this model of power as a characteristic trait in the constitution of the Brazilian Northeast in dialogue with the concept of national-popular, by Antonio Gramsci (2002). This analysis resulted in a pertinent discussion for the understanding of the confrontations of gender, class and race represented in the Brazilian Literature of the Northeast, having as historical context the period of the coronelista and slave regimes of the end of the 19th century.