The narrator of A Bagaceira and social denunciation

Abstract

This work considers the language as an ideological expression whose features go beyond the diction level, raising the relationships that men have kept with the world. It tries to verify to what extent the narrator of A bagaceira impedes the northeastern popular culture to flourish because of his convictions and objectives. It analyzes how the voices of the characters are shaped based mainly on the dialogical theory of Bakhtin in favor of a construction of a social speech whose view changes the northeastern countryside into a place marked by the past, the feudal system and manichaeism. The work of José Américo de Almeida is considered as an example of literary construction that has an author who places himself in a cultured condition and also recognizes himself as the person who has to save the lower social classes.