Brejeiros e sertanejos: os daqui e os de lá. Uma análise do conceito de família a partir de a bagaceira

Abstract

This article approaches the concept based on the issues brought forth by the novel “ A Bagaceira ”. Its main purpose is to investigate the constitutive elements of a wider definition of this notion than that which was proposed by the model of the patriarchal family. The flight of people from the arid and remote interior, caused by droughts, and their search for a new place – narrated in the book – will result in an apparently chaotic situation and in the dismantlement of their families. However, in their new place, the description of their relationship with the established will set forth the idea of recomposition of the family as essential to understand the insufficiency of the model of the patriarchal family to elucidate other domestic units. It will also reveal to us what is at stake for the sertanejos when they affirm the existence of the family as a cohesive unit