VIAJAR É CONFRONTAR-SE: CHOQUES CULTURAIS EM CRÔNICAS DE JOÃO UBALDO RIBEIRO

Authors

  • Camila Ulmer da Silva Universidade de Caxias do Sul
  • Tatiane Kaspari Universidade Feevale

Abstract

Abstract: A trip, as geographic transit, also implies in cultural and identity journeys. This article stems from a bibliographic and interdisciplinary review about culture and identity in their intersections with language and traveling literature, to analyse the short stories “Pequenos choques (Quatro anotações de um visitante distraído)”, “Storkwinkel 12, Rio” and “Os índios de Berlim”. João Ubaldo Ribeiro’s stories illustrate the cultural shock that characterizes the trip of a Brazilian man to the recently reunified German territory after the Cold War. The narrator’s speech and the language exchange portrayed indicate a new identity that varies between the figures of the tourist and the traveller. On the whole, there is a prevalence in the traveller identity that resembles the anthropologist in the search of understanding himself through the foreign culture.

 

Keywords: Culture shocks; Identity; Traveller; Tourist; Short stories by João Ubaldo Ribeiro.

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Author Biographies

Camila Ulmer da Silva, Universidade de Caxias do Sul

Camila Ulmer da Silva possui graduação em Pedagogia pela Universidade de Caxias do Sul (2014), graduação em Licenciatura em Letras Português/Inglês - IFRS Campus Feliz (2019) e Pós- Graduação Lato Sensu/ Especialização em Psicopedagogia pela Universidade de Caxias do Sul (2016). Atualmente é professora no município de Flores da Cunha. Tem experiência na área de Educação, com ênfase em Psicopedagogia.

Tatiane Kaspari, Universidade Feevale

Abstract: A trip, as geographic transit, also implies in cultural and identity journeys. This article stems from a bibliographic and interdisciplinary review about culture and identity in their intersections with language and traveling literature, to analyse the short stories “Pequenos choques (Quatro anotações de um visitante distraído)”, “Storkwinkel 12, Rio” and “Os índios de Berlim”. João Ubaldo Ribeiro’s stories illustrate the cultural shock that characterizes the trip of a Brazilian man to the recently reunified German territory after the Cold War. The narrator’s speech and the language exchange portrayed indicate a new identity that varies between the figures of the tourist and the traveller. On the whole, there is a prevalence in the traveller identity that resembles the anthropologist in the search of understanding himself through the foreign culture.

 

Keywords: Culture shocks; Identity; Traveller; Tourist; Short stories by João Ubaldo Ribeiro.

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Published

2024-12-31

Issue

VOL. 37, NO. 75 2024 - BRASIL/BRAZIL

Section

ENSAIO/ESSAY