Os novos filhos da dor: Oriente e origem em Mllton Hatoum

Abstract

Since the 18th century the construction of Brazil has been an ever-present theme in Brazilian literature. In different but always celebratory ways, Santa Rita Durão, Alencar and Mário de Andrade have dealt with racial and cultural miscegenation. In the beginning of the 21st century descendants of immigrants bring a new contribution to these earlier approaches. Among them. Milton Hatoum rethinks Brazilian history through his understanding of hybridism as a form of excessiveness counteracting a sense of the nation as a uniform totality.