A representação de lugares de memória regional na obra Infância, de Graciliano Ramos

Abstract

This dissertation analyses how the regional places of memory have been represented in the work Infância, associated to conceptions originated from studies of region and of regionality. In the space fictionally built by the protagonist, the violence accompanies him and integrates different relations of power instituted at home and at school. The reorganization of such contexts is carried out through frames of memory, which are spread individually, but with collective characters, apart from keeping relations with the imaginary and originating one identity profile composed by regional characters. In this process of recall, the regional places of memory emerge, represented on the school and familiar institution and also on the figure of the writer Graciliano Ramos, revealing some symbolic and cultural senses surrounded on the literature and on the Brazilian society.