O Drama dos ervais em Selva Trágica, de Hernâi Donato

Abstract

In this work, the literary production of Hernâni Donato is taken as a line of analysis. The main corpus of reflection constitued by Selva Trágica is: the ervateira heroic deed in sulestematogrossense (1956), expression of interculturality in the poetry of the sul-mato-grossense writer, resulting the materiality of a text in the language of hybridity condition in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso do Sul border with Paraguay. The interest turns to the presentation and contextualization of Selva Trágica narrative and its author, emblematic signs of border literature Brasil-Paraguai and of the recognized historical period called Erva-Mate Cycle, which is a fundamental theme of this work. Thus, this study's objectives are guided by the recovery of literature on Hernâni Donato, since several scholars and writers recognize the relevance of the writer's work, either to Mato Grosso do Sul regional history, or to interculturality studies, border ones - to the meaning of his contemporary as reporting and denouncing narratives and of local stories, resizing the place of literary history in the subcontinent - and particularly by the analysis of literary narrative, in order to verify the aesthetic proposal of the work whose relaunch today in exquisite reprint, while reflecting also shows great artistic design and the same critical fortune of Selva Trágica. Therefore, the perspective of this analysis is based on the reading of the paratextuality, in that this part of semiotic studies is contemplated by the comparative literature, as recommended by GENETTE (2009), Tania CARVALHAL (2005, 2006), Gilda BITTENCOURT (2008), Rita BITTENCOURT (2010) and the fundamental exegesis of Jérri MARIN (2013).