Hinterland, space for topophilic and biophilic poetic germination in Patativa do Assaré: an ecocritical approach

Abstract

Faced with the environmental problems faced in our contemporaneity, socio-environmentalists from all over the world mobilize with the objective of thinking about the human-nature relationship. Therefore, systematic and interdisciplinary studies have emerged in an attempt to question the utilitarian condition of natural goods as non-renewable resources. In this way, it was intended to expand the discussions on Ecocriticism as an articulator of this interdisciplinarity. The concept of Ecocritical literary theory contributed to the analysis of our research. For this purpose, the objective of this study was to analyze the human-nature relationship in the poetics of Patativa do Assaré, which thematizes Literature and Ecology, based on the critical Ecocritic current. Thus, the poetic analyzes contribute to the understanding of the northeastern hinterland as a space where the seed and the rhymes that express topophilic and biophilic feelings sprout. As results obtained from the analysis of the poems, it was possible to observe that Patavian poetics was consolidated as a sertanejo space where rhymes flourish at the same pace as nature flourishes and, finally, a topophilic and biophilic literature and, for that, a new re-signification of the subject-nature relationship. We concluded that Ecocriticism has become an important tool for analyzing the literary text, allowing us to perceive a redefinition of the human being-nature. Specifically, the poetics of Patativa do Assaré allow us to look at the place, the human being and the existence in a single and inseparable triple aspect.