Dinaura: the representation of the amazonian myth in Hatoum

Abstract

Campbell (1990) argues that the myth is present in social actions in which man cannot understand and/or resolve through rationality. Durand (1998) corroborates this theory by stating that human thought is a representation of symbolic articulations. When there are problem-situations, man often takes possession of symbolic representations and myth, in order to seek clarifications that guide him in the understanding of interpersonal relationships. Based on these theoretical assumptions, the objective of this research is organized, which aims to make a literary analysis from the interpretative reading of the social role of the Amazonian myth to explain the behaviors and characteristics of the character Dinaura - associated with the hybrid figures that live in the rivers of Manaus by the narrator of Orphans of Eldorado (2015) by Milton Hatoum, to justify his love frustrations and masculine legitimation in the face of female non-domination. Therefore, this investigation started from a bibliographic theoretical-methodological procedure of literature review of authors such as those already mentioned, in addition to others that contributed to the foundation of the argument that in the narratives of a writer like Hatoum, sculptor of novels by an engaged and critical political-social Literature, there are also themes with an approach to the Amazonian myth in his work.