Personagens e neocolonialismo em A hora dos ruminantes, de José J. Veiga

Abstract

Under lenses countercolonial and dialectical-materialist, this research analyzed the narrative function of five characters in A hora dos ruminantes ([1966] 2022), by José J. Veiga. Merging aspects of the textualist and contextualist critical analysis, the study concludes that these five relevant characters to the development of the novel - Geminiano Dias, Amâncio Mendes, Manuel Florêncio, Nazaré and Apolinário - act as allegorical signs of the social relations inter-related. The methodology of this work is the bibliographic survey, with the critical works used in this research being: Souza (1987), Amaral (2002), Dantas (2003), Paganini (2007), Rezende (2008), Santos (2008), Oliveira (2009), Röhrig (2011), Oliveira (2012), Kohlrausch and Augstburger (2013), Trevizan (2013), Barbosa (2018), Amâncio (2019), Mello (2020), Almeida et al. (2021), Mello (2021), Côrrea and Salla (2022), Santos (2022), Modesto (2023), Monteiro and Canarinos (2023) and Santos (2024).