As Fronteiras entre história, memória e ficção em Cunhataí, de Maria Filomena Bouissou Lepecki

Abstract

This dissertation is an analysis of the work Cunhataí: um romance da Guerra do Paraguai [Cunhataí: A novel of Paraguay War] (2003), written by Maria Filomena Bouissou Lepecki. In order to show different stories in gender and degree of fictionalization, but with the same historical context (the Paraguay War), works such as A retirada da Laguna [The Laguna Withdrawal, 1871]; Guerra entre irmãos [War among brothers, 1993]; and Senhorinha Barbosa Lopes [Senhorinha Barbosa Lopes, 2007] are mentioned. We propose to discuss the relationship between history / memory / fiction from the perspective of theories related to Comparative Literature, the Cultural Studies and studies about memorialism, mainly from theorists like Tania Franco Carvalhal (2003 e 2006), Antonio Candido (1992 and 2000) Hayden White (2001), Jacques Le Goff (2003), Maurice Halbwachs (2006), Paul Ricoeur (2008), Philippe Lejeune (2008) and Benedict Anderson (2008), among others. To develop this study, researches were conducted through specific bibliography, in order to highlight the dialogical character that the work of Lepecki can establish with other narratives, truthful or fictional, and investigate whether the literary and historical speeches - mediated or not by memory - blend and complement the narrative, revealing or fading borders. Cunhataí shows in its plot important cultural aspects of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, and contributes to enriching to the critical fortune related to contemporary literature in Mato Grosso do Sul.