Considerações sobre as textualidades indígenas Watunna: mitologia Makiritare

Abstract

The present investigation aims to reflect about the process of recognition of the indigenous textualities in the context of Latin-American, Amazon and circum-Roraima region culture, with the goal of making an approach about the participation of indigenous textualities in the American literature and analyze aesthetic, historical and sociologically the workWatunnaMakiritare Mythology, published by the scholar in mythology Marc de Civrieux in 1970. Our reflection starts about the process of development of culture and Latin-American literature, giving special emphasis to the sources and textual forms produced in the Amazônia, and later discuss the participation of the sources and karibeans textual forms in the process of definition of culture and Latin-American literature. This course serves as basis to analyze the set of narratives compiled by Marc de Civrieux as much oral performing, own of the ye’kuana people, as a written narrative set, linked to the discursive tradition in the Ethnography field. The main interest is to discuss about the ethical, aesthetic and, above all, literary values of indigenous texts, in special of the Watunna-Makiritare Mythology, which tells the creation and history of the makiritare or ye’kuana people. It refers to a kind of text of cosmogony character which presents a story that ranges since the creation of the world and ye’kuana people to the colonization process, when this people starts to maintain constant relations with the European civilization.