Intersectionalities: Indigenous woman's representation in the work of Milton Hatoum
Representation of indigenous women. Female characters in Milton Hatoum. Gender studies.
The representation of indigenous women in the literary text reflects gender and identity issues that permeate the societies mimetically portrayed. The writer Milton Hatoum presents in his first four narrative novels that take place in the Brazilian Amazon: The Tree of the Seventh Heaven (1989), Two brothers (2000), Ashes of the Amazon (2005) and Orphans of Eldorado (2008). These literary works present women of different ethnicities, social strata and religions who share the conflicting space of the changing Amazon. The problem of this research is about the representations and relations that are established between the indigenous female characters with the environment and with the protagonists and / or narrators in the aforementioned works of Milton Hatoum, aiming to analyze the characters in a perspective of gender studies. Considering the precepts addressed by Beauvoir (1970) about feminism and gender issues, Zolin (2003) and Zinani (2013) about representation of women in literature, and Silva (2015) about woman in the work of Milton Hatoum, this study presents an overview of the representation of indigenous women in texts dealing with the Amazon, with subsequent analysis of the presence of the indigenous element in the novels of Amazonian setting of Milton Hatoum and and analysis focused on the characters Domingas (Two brothers), Alícia (Ashes of the Amazon), Florita and Dinaura (Orphans of Eldorado). In Milton Hatoum, the indigenous and warlike vision of the indigenous in the Amazon is replaced by the representation of accultured and subordinate women, no in the forests, but living in the domestic spaces and suburbs of Manaus.