PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Tânia Pellegrini
TI  - Milton Hatoum e o regionalismo revisitado
AID  - 10.3368/lbr.41.1.121
DP  - 2004 Jun 01
TA  - Luso-Brazilian Review
PG  - 121--138
VI  - 41
IP  - 1
4099  - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/41/1/121.short
4100  - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/41/1/121.full
SO  - Luso-Braz Rev2004 Jun 01; 41
AB  - This article analyzes the two novels of the Amazonian writer Milton Hatoum—Relato de um certo Oriente (1989) and Dois irmãos (2000)—as both revisiting and revitalizing regionalism—a classic stream of Brazilian fiction—while adding innovative nuances to it. Taking advantage of contributions belonging to classical urban literary matrices, both modern and contemporary, already incorporated into Brazilian fiction, Hatoum re-examines their regional contents, composing a hybrid tissue that keeps alive all of its sources and that in turn passes on the inheritance received from them. In this way, he rescues the specific identity of the tradition and prevents its transformation into a “multicultural text.”