Tendências de escrita em prosa na literatura indígena brasileira contemporânea

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the aesthetic and literary resources used by contemporary Indigenous authors in Brazil as they develop their literary writing. To this end, it seeks to expand the reflection contained in Mutações da literatura no século XXI (Perrone-Moisés, 2016), in a dialogic and complementary manner, concerning the study of writing trends in contemporary indigenous literature. The corpus selected to investigate these trends consists of works published from the 2000s by Indigenous authors, including: A mulher que virou urutau (2011), written by Olívio Jecupe and Maria Kerexu in Portuguese and by Jera Giselda in Guarani; Criaturas de Ñanderu (2010), by Graça Graúna; O pássaro encantado (2014), written by Graça Graúna; Um curumim, uma canoa (2012), by Yaguarê Yamã; Um dia na aldeia (2012), written by Daniel Munduruku; and the anthology Nós: Uma antologia de Literatura Indígena (2019), organized by Maurício Negro. The research hypothesis is based on the fact that Contemporary Brazilian Indigenous Literature has a canon, with established Indigenous authors whose works possess unique characteristics, whether in structural aspects (confluence of genres, self-writing, and intertextuality) or thematic terms (stories about Indigenous daily life and primordial stories). This research is relevant due to its contribution to critical studies on Brazilian Indigenous literature. The theoretical foundation for studying these writing trends includes: architectural - Mikhail Bakhtin (2012); self-writing - Leyla Perrone-Moisés (2016) and Graça Graúna (2013); stories about Indigenous daily life - Julie Dorrico; and primordial stories - Ailton Krenak and Yussef Campos (2021). The research methodology involves a bibliographic analysis of the selected corpus in dialogue with works published between 2010 and 2024