Mecanismo da “cultura da honra” na dramaturgia ramalhiana: análise-interpretação de Chã dos esquecidos

Abstract

This is a proposed analysis-interpretation of Chã dos Esquecidos [1977 or 1978], by Lourdes Ramalho, a text that continues to formalize themes alluding to the representation of northeastern regionality, but which inaugurates a new aesthetic-formal approach in the author's work, a tragedy project based on a melodramatic perspective (Maciel, 2020). The plot addresses the experiences of two conflicting families, marked by disputes over the land that names the play and the defense of family honor, but the action also points to a broader social problem, the northeastern migration to the North of the country, during the rubber exploitation cycle. Therefore, the objective is to discuss the intervention of the culture of honor in the tensions and conflicts between individuals during the action, considering that the region taken as a referential and symbolic space, the Northeast, is still marked by residues of patriarchalism, and therefore, uses the rules of honor to dictate the ways of being a man and being a woman in the locality (Fischer, Manstead and Rodriguez-Mosquera, 1999; Pitt-Rivers, 1965). In this way, it is also my interest to analyze how relationships between genders are constructed and articulated in view of the need to preserve family honor, which, in this sociocultural context, is associated with the roles played by women in caring for the home and policing. of their affections, but this perspective, when subverted, activates the gears of this culture of honor, contributing to the tragic outcome of the plot. Finally, based on the contributions of Williams (2002), Szondi (2004; 2011) and Sarrazac (2013; 2017), I turn to the aesthetic-formal elements of the text under study, which, when associated with a rural atmosphere traditionalism that oppresses social subjects, the majority of whom are women, in the face of a current culture, points to the formalization of the tragic in modern times.