A relação entre história e ficção : Tuiatã, de Hilda Simões Lopes (2017)

Abstract

This work analyzes Hilda Simões Lopes’s Tuiatã: the true story of a family on land occupied by horse’s hoof, carbines and honeysuckle, seeking to establish relationships between two fields – fiction and history – and aiming to understand this novel as a female historical fiction. We base our approach on Georg Lukács’s theoretical proposal about the novel and on Marilene Weinhardt’s formulations about Brazilian historical novel. The research is also based on Gérard Genette's terminology regarding the definition of prolepsis and metalepsis and on Carlos Reis’s figuration and refiguration, that relate writer characters to the recovery of their memory within the diegetic universe. Revisiting these propositions elucidates that historical facts presence does not get confused with fictional universe creation, and the appropriation of data from reality contributes to the narrative’s sequence. Therefore, the analysis of these elements recommend text fictionality concomitantly with historical data manipulation, pointing out the women’s role in literary history as narrators and protagonists.