ENTRE LITERATURA E CINEMA: UM OLHAR « GEOCRÍTICO » SOBRE A CIDADE DE RECIFE

Abstract

Since the early 2000s, Brazilian urban spaces experienced profound changes. Important changes related, among other factors, to a new place of Brazil in the international context, as an emerging country, but also the economic growth that has made possible an increase of unprecedented social mobility in the history of the country. These changes inspired many literary and cinematographic works that propose other views and representations of Brazilian cities, particularly the Northeast of the country, which are still part of a rural imaginary, connected to the aridity of th ‘Hinterland’; a space that, in an earlier time in history of the country, represented a symbol of national identity. In this paper, we will concern the city of Recife through a novel of Raimundo Carrero and a Cláudio Assis film, two representative artists of a new generation that proposes other perspectives on the state capital of Pernambuco. Our work is not a traditional analysis of the relationship between literature and cinema, but a crossing proposal of these two artists views over the city in a’geocrticism’ perspective: a new theoretical tool to rethink the representations of spaces