The places filled by imagination: The literary scene as a challenge to historians - Carpentier and "The kingdom of this world"

Authors

  • Fabiana de Souza Fredrigo Professora Associada da Faculdade de História da Universidade Federal de Goiás.
  • Libertad Borges Bittencourt Docente (Associada II) de História da América na Faculdade de História da UFG - Universidade Federal de Goiás.

Abstract

Alejo Carpentier, in the novel The kingdom of this world, written in 1948, resorts to marvelous realism, in a diegetic narrative, presenting us with real and fictional characters who are in the midst of events in the fight for freedom in the French colony, at that time, São Domingos. We intend to seek in fiction the threads of the traumatic narrative of Haiti’s independence. Classified as a historical novel, the reading of The kingdom of this world puts history in a new perspective as the novel allows us to see it happening. Starting from this perception, we intend to explore Carpentier’s writing project, which, according to our understanding, is a proposal for the deciphering of America.

Keywords: history, literature, America, culture, Carpentier.

Author Biographies

Fabiana de Souza Fredrigo, Professora Associada da Faculdade de História da Universidade Federal de Goiás.

Docente (Associada I) de História Contemporânea na Faculdade de História da UFG - Universidade Federal de Goiás. Atua no Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da instituição. Desenvolve pesquisa e orienta na área de História da América e História Contemporânea. Fez mestrado e doutorado na UNESP e pós-doutortado na USP. Atualmente, ocupa o cargo de Pró-Reitora Adjunta de Pós-Graduação na UFG.

Libertad Borges Bittencourt, Docente (Associada II) de História da América na Faculdade de História da UFG - Universidade Federal de Goiás.

Atua na Graduação e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da instituição, orientando pesquisas na área de História da América e demais. Fez mestrado na UFG, doutorado na UnB e pós-doutorado na UFMG.

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Published

2015-06-18

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2015): May/August

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