ANA AND THE RIVER'S MARGIN: A NAUÁ INDIA IN SEARCH OF HERSELF

Abstract

This article sought to discuss the experience with the other - this is the central idea in the work "Ana e a Margem do Rio", by Godofredo de Oliveira Neto. The reading of this charming novel captures from the first page our attention and can be considered a practical treatise of Literary Theory.  The present work, through its pleasurable reading, aims at contact with the process of identity construction of an Indian Nauá. But above all, it is analyzed as an example of experience between the differences, between cultural realities that merge. It presents a narrator who, in trying to write the memoirs of the legends told by her mother, understands the processes interwoven in violence against indigenous peoples, weaving a narrative between the daily and the fable. The writer brings us a 17-year-old Indian, representative of the Nauá people who in an attempt to write the memoirs of legends told by their mother, ends up making us understand the violence against indigenous peoples and thus awakening in the reader the conscience and need to preserve them.