A alteridade como elemento identitária na obra O homem de Barlovento de Bruno Cláudio Garmatz

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze how does manifest otherness, rootlessness and identity as relevant elements in the work of Homem de Barlovento by the gaucho writer Bruno Claúdio Garmatz in the context of Literature for Roraima; highlighting the natural environment of the region, being illustrated in the work through the various shifts experienced by the main character Maurice and his experiences with the Other, "the stranger". To discover these elements, initially I provide information about the author, then I make a contextualization of the work and finally, with the support of theoretical texts by Julia Kristeva (1994), Tzvetan Todorov (1999) and (2010), Deleuze and Guattari (1995) the position of the other is illustrated. In order to analyze the identity structure of the displaced, I sought theoretical support in Stuart Hall (2003) and (2006) and Kathryn Woodward (2000) as well as García Canclini (2008) with the concept of hybridity. With this research I hope to contribute with studies of contemporary authors in the State of Roraima and bring about the discussion that what is strange to us, that which is different, the other, that annoys us, starts when a consciousness of our differences arises and ends when we recognize that we all are foreigners: the foreigner lives in us (Kristeva, 1994, p. 9).