Mestre Amaro, um lobisomem do canavial: a representação da licantropia em Fogo Morto

Abstract

This work discusses the presence of the myth of the werewolf in the book Fogo Morto, by José Lins do Rego. They are approached the aspects of myth, social imaginary and identity presents in story, well as the form as those interact. The study focuses the character José Amaro, saddler of a rural locality of the Várzea do Paraíba, that through social imaginary haves your identity linked to archtype of the lycanthrope. The study is divided in four distinct moments: apresentation of the book Fogo Morto and his context in the brazilian literature; the composition of the myth of the werewolf in Fogo Morto; the development of a social imaginary and his effects in the community; the problem of the identity of the José Amaro.