Constelações mineiras de Autran Dourado

Minas Gerais, a subjetividade e a literatura

Abstract

This essay goals to analyze the relationships between literature, subjectivity and Minas Gerais in the constellations of Autran Dourado. By constellations, I mean both the images present is his literary work, as well as the intellectual and, specifically, literary scene, in which the author is enrolled in 20^th century second half. For that, I observe the self-fashioning that Autran aims to build about his prose, based on the analysis of the author’s archives in the Acervo dos Escritores Mineiros, contrasting it with his literary work. I understand that the relationship between the author and his intellectual scene allows us to glimpse general aspects of Minas Gerais fiction in the 20^th century second half. Thus, literature assumes the role of constantly rewriting the History of Minas and, simultaneously, reflects on the constitution of subjectivities as inseparable from its territory, its narratives and myths.