Identity mobility in the nephew of Iauaretê: rethinking cultural asymmetries

Abstract

Notions and concepts such as cultural backwardness, hegemony, “original trunk”, matrix, “secondary branches”, subalternity, among others, permeate the discussions about culture and identity and establish asymmetrical power relationships. Literature, a constituent part of the cultural and identitary processes of a nation, assimilate such relationships and exemplifies, very often, such concepts. Starting from the text “Meu tio o Iauaretê”, by João Guimarães Rosa, one analyzes the identitary transformation of the character and some of the cultural implications of the narrative.