| Titre | A representação do imigrante árabe em A descoberta da América pelos turcos, de Jorge Amado | |
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| Auteur | Mireille Garcia | |
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Revue | Amerika |
| Numéro | No 10, 2014 Le Brésil de Jorge Amado: perspectives interculturelles | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Thématique |
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| Résumé anglais |
In contemporary Brazilian literature, a growing number of authors are exploring the figure of the immigrant, his ethnicity and his representation on the margins of fiction and the nation. In The discovery of America by the Turks by Jorge Amado, the characters of Arabic origins are no longer displaced or relegated to the status of strangers and foreigners anymore : they occupy the centre of the narrative. This paper aims to analyse the representation of Arab immigrants in the novel and question stereotypes which are taken by the author, which « Orient » he deconstructs and reconstructs and which place these immigrants occupy. It is also to understand how the question of the experience of the « Other » and the identity figurations in the novel create binarism between belonging and an almost imaginary territory that can be classified as an « in-between place ». Theoretical contributions will be taken as the concept of orientalism by Edward Said, the concept of stereotypes and otherness representation by Homi Bhabha along with the concept of habitus of Pierre Bourdieu. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://amerika.revues.org/4851 |
