Marcas culturais da Amazônia

Dialogismo e construção de sentidos entre a televisão e a literatura na obra Dois Irmãos

Abstract

When we think of culture as the social fabric that identifies us, it brings us closer and makes us feel belonging to a group, place and space in society, we reflect: what is the Amazon? And what cultural marks are present in the voices of those who speak to it? Our purpose in proposing this reflection is to analyze the mobilizing elements that construct the cultural sense of the Amazon in the encounter between the television and literary languages. That is, taking the word as an ethical act, action on the world and the other. As a scope of analysis, we selected the literary novel Dois Irmãos, adapted by Rede Globo de Televisão, in a miniseries and screened in January, 2017. Milton Hatoum's work narrates the family plot of the Lebanese descendants in Manaus in the first half of the twentieth century. We reflect that the television language, when narratively adapting the literary text, potentiates a dialogism and a polyphony of social voices, in the necessary relation of any expression with other expressions, recreating the verbal text and visually materializing the cultural elements of possible interpretation of the Amazon. That is, in narrative analysis the river becomes the metaphor of human existence, as streams of life that indicate, at the same time, serenity and current, tension and restlessness. The river represents memory and cultural construction.