Xarqueada : ficção e documento no romance de Pedro Wayne

Abstract

This paper looks forward to understand the representations of charqueada (salted and dried meat) industry in Rio Grande do Sul, from the novel Xarqueada, published by Pedro Wayne in 1937. It discusses the novel‘s cultural context, as much as its sociohistorical conditions. In the 1930‘s, the state of Rio Grande do Sul experienced important economic, social and politic al changes that can be read from the changes in literature. Therefore, the concept of representation is privileged, from both the perspectives of the novel‘s documental nature and fictional resources. Concepts like fiction and document, and subjects like regionalist literature and ―romance de 30‖ are considered. This discussion is tributary from the theoretical and methodological approaches from the New Cultural History.