MYTH, MEMORY AND INDIGENOUS CULTURAL RESIGNIFICATION IN THE CANUMÃ WORK: THE CROSSING OF YTANAJÉ COELHO CARDOSO
Indigenous Culture, Cultural reframing, Memory.
The objective of this work is to analyze the work Canumã: the crossing, by Ytanajé Coelho Cardoso, considering the issue of memory and indigenous cultural re-signification. This novel, written by a Munduruku native, mixes fiction with memories of childhood and Borba, a city in the interior of the state of Amazonas. Narrated in the first person, the main character presents his experiences and knowledge, seeking to emphasize the role of elders in maintaining culture through orality. The narrative thus brings the ancient and ancestral customs of this people, and for that it uses the memory of the stories heard from the elders, leading to the cultural past, in addition to portraying the cultural transformations experienced in the present. This bibliographic research will therefore seek to analyze the representations of indigenous peoples and cultural transformations in the narrative, based on the concepts of memory and cultural re-signification.