A categoria do espaço e o contexto de produção na obra Xarqueada de Pedro Wayne

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the space and context of production of Pedro Wayne’s novel Xarqueada (1937). This literary work has as subject the workers’ life in the charqueadas of Rio Grande do Sul during the first decade of the 20th century. In order to do that, the author builds a realistic and rough narrative that through a denouncing tone shows the unhealthy conditions in which these jerked beef makers were forced to work under. The ideologically marked discourse permeates the entire book, allowing us to analyze it within the literary production of the 30’s Novels and under a political view conceiving it as a Proletarian Novel, having in mind that Xarqueada’s main subject is the class struggle and the social injustices. Thus, we reached the conclusion that Pedro Wayne’s novel in question shows itself meaningful due to its historical and literary values and also constituting a literary work coherent to its proposal and the movement it belongs to.