Entre o céu e a terra: figurações de uma infância em conflito na narrativa Em teu ventre, de José Luís Peixoto.

Abstract

In essence, literature manifests itself as various ways of knowing the world. In this perspective, this research intends first of all to analyse the narrative Em teu ventre (2015), by portuguese writer José Luís Peixoto, under the optics of the studies that talk about infancy, as a stage of life, and of Cultural Humanist Geography, of phenomenological approach, whose core approaches the lived spaces. Em teu ventre tells the story of three little shepherds that experienced the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima, in Cova da Iria, in Portugal – context that changes the entire way of living of those children, in function of the responsabilities that fall on them, by being designated as the voice of the Mother of Christ. The emphasis falls as much on the moments of figuration of infancy, mostly on tensions and conflicts, as in the strict relation of the phenomenom with place. It will be brought to surface categories such as maternity, feeling of infancy, idealised infancy and lost infancy, in a profitable dialogue with the matters of space, place, spaciousness, crowding, topophilia, topophobia and lived world, with the intention of demonstrating how these categories are fictionalised in the work of Peixoto. As theoretical scope of this work, stand out the studies of Gomes (1993), Câmara (2019), Moisés (2005, 2012), Ariès (1981), Zilberman (2003), Lajolo (2011), Coutinho (2012), Bettelheim (2017), Gutfreind (2012), Chombart de Lauwe (1991); Bachelard (2008; 2018), Piorski (2016), Benjamin (1995; 2009), Badinter (1985; 2011), Donath (2017); Tuan (2005; 2012; 2013), Dardel (2015).