Milton Hatoum e o exílio como metáfora para a condição do intelectual

Abstract

In this paper, from a reflection about Milton Hatoum, a writer from Amazonia, we intend to develop a study about the intellectual's figure, trying to underline the unfixed and erratic place that this occupies in the contemporaneity. By means of the reading of the novels Relato de um certo oriente and Dois irmdos, we try to develop the hypothesis that the "exile" can function as a metaphor of the intellectual's condition. That is, the intellectual's place is another enunciation place, from where he debates the hegemonic culture discourses, or dialoging with them, or questioning its centrality and fixity. In addition, from this enunciation locus question, we unfold the works analyses, focusing the spaces as cultural locality. Thus we highlight the amazonian landscape and the discourses that shaped over the years an imaginary about this region, trying to understand how it is currently revisited by new critical discourses.