标题：Portugueses em O cortiço e Emigrantes: migração como degeneração ou miragem / Portuguese Characters in O cortiço and Emigrantes: Migration as Degeneration or Mirage
期刊名称：O Eixo e a Roda: Revista de Literatura Brasileira
印刷版ISSN：2358-9787
出版年度：2020
卷号：29
期号：3
页码：188-206
DOI：10.17851/2358-9787.29.3.188-206
出版社：Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
摘要：Resumo: This article presents a comparative analysis of the novels O cortiço (1890), by the Brazilian writer Aluísio Azevedo, and Emigrantes (1928), by the Portuguese author Ferreira de Castro.The goal is to identify how Portuguese people who emigrated to Brazil were represented in characters of these works.It was found that, in O cortiço, migration appears as degeneration caused by the hostile social and natural environment of Brazil, according to the premises of the naturalist aesthetics.Under the influence of the sun, poverty and the Brazilian human landscape, the Portuguese people either get rich by stealing and exploiting labor, including slavery, or undergo a life of addiction.On the other hand, in Emigrantes, this migratory flow appears as a mirage, because the possibility of enrichment in America fades away in the confrontation with the concrete experience of the characters.In the study, contributions from critics Antonio Cândido, Eduardo Lourenço and Miguel Torga are mobilized, as well as statistics that contextualize Portuguese immigration in Brazil.Palavras-chave: migração portuguesa no Brasil; Aluísio Azevedo; romance naturalista; Ferreira de Castro; Realismo; literatura comparada.Abstract: This article presents a comparative analysis of the novels O cortiço (1890), by the Brazilian writer Aluísio Azevedo, and Emigrantes (1928), by the Portuguese author Ferreira de Castro.The goal is to identify how Portuguese people who emigrated to Brazil were represented in characters of these works.It was found that, in O cortiço, migration appears as degeneration caused by the hostile social and natural environment of Brazil, according to the premises of the naturalist aesthetics.Under the influence of the sun, poverty and the Brazilian human landscape, the Portuguese people either get rich by stealing and exploiting labor, including slavery, or undergo a life of addiction.On the other hand, in Emigrantes, this migratory flow appears as a mirage, because the possibility of enrichment in America fades away in the confrontation with the concrete experience of the characters.In the study, contributions from critics Antonio Cândido, Eduardo Lourenço and Miguel Torga are mobilized, as well as statistics that contextualize Portuguese immigration in Brazil.
关键词：migração portuguesa no Brasil; Aluísio Azevedo; romance naturalista; Ferreira de Castro; Realismo; literatura comparada.
