Relações coloniais em O Velho e o Mar.

Abstract

The post-colonial literatures are productions that have contributed to the understanding of factors that affected societies dominated by the colonization process, characteristic factor of imperialism executed by major world power, such as England and the United States. However, the colonial system left economic and cultural marks in the majority of countries affected by it, and they lingered to current days they are reflected in literary texts. In this context, it is possible to consider compositions written in scenarios that had undergone this regime imposed by colonization, and it is by this perspective that the Post-colonial Studies are inserted. Therefore, this research aims to analyze through post-colonial bias The Old Man and the Sea (1952), one of the most famous novels written by the American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). Presenting the story of an old fisherman in solitude in the high seas, the work demonstrates the relationship of colonization between United States and Cuba. It was used as the theoretical support the works of Bonnici (2000, 2005), Ashcroft et al. (1989, 2004, 2007), among others. Thus, this work consists of a bibliographical research on the life and work of the author, and the trajectory of the Post-colonial Studies in the literary sphere. From this, the reading will be held of the literary corpus in study by applying the post- colonial theory to it, taking into account the context in which the work was developed produced.