Abstract

FERNANDEZ, Juan Manuel. OS SERTÕES: A STORY ABOUT COLLECTIVE INSANITY. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2013, vol.15, n.2, pp.181-210. ISSN 0123-5931.

When reading Os Sertões (1902), we can explore a certain sensitivity concerning a social remainder, the community of Canudos, which is mainly marked by a criminalization and pathologization based upon modern psychiatric theories. The organization of several fragments of this interpretive essay, together with some other psychiatric theories and literary texts, will help us to approach certain specific points of view of Euclides da Cunha concerning modernity and its remains, about crime and insanity between the Brazilian coastal regions and the sertao, as well as highlighting the way this sensitivity becomes important.

Keywords : Euclides Da Cunha; Brazilian literature; Latin-American literature; literature and power; determinism; insanity.

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