Le Saci centenaire : une analyse mythocritique du « Saci-pererê – résultat d’une enquête »
This article revisits the book O Saci-Pererê – Resultado de um Inquérito (Saci-Pererê – Result of an Inquiry), published in 1918, by the Brazilian author Monteiro Lobato. The book contains more than seventy testimonies that give plural versions of the most Brazilian of myths: the Saci – a black gobl...
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Crynodeb: | This article revisits the book O Saci-Pererê – Resultado de um Inquérito (Saci-Pererê – Result of an Inquiry), published in 1918, by the Brazilian author Monteiro Lobato. The book contains more than seventy testimonies that give plural versions of the most Brazilian of myths: the Saci – a black goblin, with European and indigenous heritage. Starting from the study of the canonical narrative and the recognition of the symbolic weight of the name of the myth, this work begins with a mythocritical analysis based on the archetypological contribution of the general theory of the imaginary, seeking to highlight the symbolic constellations that emerge from the work. Although initial readings may conjure up racist and demonized images, from our analysis we have identified groupings relating to the following mythologems: the native, the bird, the slave, the trickster, the devil, and the hero. They highlight an inherent complexity of the myth, as one that vacillates between ally and punisher, between relative of the devil and God’s chosen one, between maintainer of the status quo and source of inspiration for freedom. |
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