Geografia e literatura: diálogo em torno da construção da identidade territorial sul-mato-grossense

Abstract

Since this dissertation aims at contributing to the enrichment of the geographical language, it presents references that help to think about the construction/invention/creation of the territorial identity of Mato Grosso do Sul by means of a dialogue with the regionalist literary language. To achieve such a proposal, we have chosen as a literary work the book of reminiscences A poeira da jornada: memórias, by Demosthenes Martins (1980), to be the basis of our analyses. The goal of this work is to understand the "reality" based on the way in which the individuals that live the processes of territorialization, deterritorialization and reterritorialization mean/re-mean their spatial experiences. During the memorialistic analysis, we used as our methodological reference the philosophical hermeneutics, the reception aesthetic and phenomenology. With this work, we demonstrated that the Sul-matogrossense territorial identity is derived from the articulation of social groups that struggle to achieve power hegemony (political, economic, etc.) over the articulations of the other groups. Therefore, it can be noticed that the territorial identity acquires two basic characteristics: partiality and transience. The territorial identity faces the continuous discussion of the different social articulations that through the most varied strategies, rival themselves during the process of sociabilization, resulting in having some groups succeeding and becoming powerful, hence seeking the invention of symbolic elements that represent their identity and that may be used as a territorial identity reference for the rest of the society that occupies a given territory. As a result, they eventually end up hiding different social groups, which do not identify with these privileged groups as being the self/typical of the now known Mato Grosso do Sul, because owing to the socio-territorial diversity, the hidden ones produce different meanings when they interact with spatiality.