THE GUARDIANS OF SIGNS: WOMEN OF LATIN-AMERICAN LITERATURE

One hundred years of solitude, Report on the blind and Alturas de Machu Picchu, outstanding works from the Latin American Literature of the period of its boom, broke the relationship with facile and nineteenth schemes, and brusquely sprouted in a world that went far ahead of the surrealistic theses spread by André Breton. This was possible by the emergence of magical realism in the Hispanic American pens. According to Alejo Carpentier, “Our magical realism is the one we found in a raw state, omnipresent all through Latin America. Here, the unusual is daily, in fact it has always been daily”. It should not be forgotten that Carpentier and Sábato were in Breton’s work staff, because they guarded each a deep knowledge of Surrealism. Yet the history of the religions should also be taken into account, since the knowledge of myths, with Mircea Eliade as the chief head, enables an important and close approach to the works of these authors. That is the reason why, in this essay, the mythical aspects in the previously mentioned works are analyzed.

Interfaces entre a História e a Literatura são os cenários abordados neste artigo, tendo como referencial o campo das representações culturais e a construção identitária latino-americana. Remete-se ao campo literário pensando-o, como linguagem multireferenciada, como um elemento constitutivo do tecido social, implicando em não perder sua própria dimensão: o recurso literário através do qual se expressa e constitui as identidades, especialmente a história das mulheres e relações de gênero. Um estudo comparativo entre obras de escritoras femininas da América Latina são as referencias centrais, demonstra a idéia de construção de um imperialismo que “violenta”, que destrói e que domina aspectos da vida cotidiana a partir da literatura de ficção latino-americana.