Cartographies Baianas: Identity, memory and gender in the novels of Herberto Sales.
Cultural Cartography. Herberto Sales. Memory. Representation. Genre.
This study is the result of a research that has in its mainstay the novels of Herberto Sales. The point of convergence considered is the Bahian cultural cartography. The research was carried out with the purpose of analyzing the cultural representations in three novels of the Bahian writer: The Opinions of the time (1984), Gravel (1944) and The prostitute (1996). We hope to present a cartography of representations of the Bahian culture in the three novels, to highlight identity discourses in the works, in the interface of the discursive aspects with the historical and gender themes. The study identified a consonance of the literary plan with the social one,
without, of course, considering literature merely as a reflection of society and the historical situation. The point of contact would be in the aspect in which the discourse about the representations of the Bahian cultural cartography in the herbertian roman, as narrative that is within the romanesque genre, importance, making the chronicler a historical subject, a narrator of the story, according to Walter Benjamin. It identifies itself with the city and is home to it, building, with its work, a literary-geographical map of Bahia - a literary cartography, metaphor and fabric of its existence. In the construction of the thesis, it is used as a theoretical-methodological reference, Literature in dialogue with History, from these and other theorists, those of the proposed research line, essentially, comes to the conclusion of a strong relationship with Bahia of the author, in a concrete relation of love to the place, connects to the City of Bahia and the Lavras Diamantinas. In the wake of the theoretical texts of MOURA (2011), VILMA (2008), ARAUJO (2008), CHARTIER (1991), BENJAMIN (1980, 2014), RISÉRIO (1993, 1995, 2004), et alli. Thus, like her work, Herberto Sales works to build his place in the world and, at the same time, contributes to the cultural, social, historical and political identity of Bahia.