A LUTA PELA TERRA NO ROMANCE ―A TERRA E AS CARABINAS: REPRESENTAÇÕES E SENSIBILIDADES.

Abstract

This paper makes an analysis of the Elis Literature Engaged in Bernardo, particularly his novel written in the late 1940s, "The Earth and Carbines". It was published in booklet form periodically in the Official State of Goiás observed that this literature was made for a specific purpose, since the author was active in the Brazilian Communist Party, reflecting its ideals in such work. The work is supported theoretically in Cultural History, which enables to use literature as a source of historical research. In the first chapter we demonstrate how the historian can use literature as a document; as some writers have become regionalist, do a quick story about how it came to literature engaged. In the second, expose briefly the life and works of Bernardo Elis, as well as their engagement in PCB reflected in the literature they produced. In the final chapter, we make a possible intersection between literature as "fiction" and its power of symbolization of the historical reality of the struggle for land.