A journey through ‘rocks and thorns’ in the writings of Graciliano Ramos and Bernardo Canal Feijóo
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Brazil, Argentina, Bernardo Canal Feijóo, Graciliano Ramos, natureAbstract
This paper seeks to analyse how nature was present in the works Vidas Secas (1938), by Graciliano Ramos, an author born in Alagoas, Northeast Brazil, and Ensayo sobre la expresion popular y artística en Santiago (1937), by Bernardo Canal Feijóo, a writer born in Santiago del Estero, Northwest Argentina. The idea is to reflect on the connections between two regions impacted by climate issues. We believe that Graciliano and Canal Feijóo experienced complex contexts in the 1930s related to the search for modernisation in their countries, marked by environmental degradation and social inequality translated into poverty, misery and migration. Despite the aesthetic differences between them, Graciliano, above all a novelist, and Canal Feijóo, more focused on essays, this article aims to establish a dialogue between the narratives of two intellectuals from the ‘north,’ through an intellectual body that is territory and nature understood as a body.
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