LIBERDADE À LUZ DO CÉU PROFUNDO: A NACIONALIDADE E A LITERATURA COMPARADA

This article aims at explaining conceptual transformations undergone by the idea of nationality during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, relating them to literary production and comparative literature. The freedom to associate ideas, cultures, texts of different countries is an essential comparative procedure also needed to understand the globalized world. These issues are studied in the novels Paradise, written by Toni Morrison, and Rosa Maria Egipcíaca da Vera Cruz, by Heloisa Maranhão, both first published in 1997.