Textualidades Indígenas Watunna – Mitologia Makiritare by Isabel Maria Fonseca: a literary approach to cosmogonic narratives of the peoples of Circum-Roraima as Classics of Fourth World Literature

Abstract

Fonseca, I. M. (2017). Textualidades Indígenas Watunna – Mitologia Makiritare. Boa Vista, Roraima, Brasil: Editora da UFRR. Isabel Maria Fonseca is a resident of the Amazonian State of Roraima (Brazil) and Professor at the Insikiran Institute of Higher Education for Indigenous People at the Federal University of Roraima (UFRR). In 2017 she published the findings resulting from her Master's research and fieldwork carried out with the Ye'kuana People in the book Textualidades Indígenas Watunna - Mitología Makiritare - published by UFRR. Her work aims to contextualize and present the oral tradition of these peoples, which represents their cosmogonic vision and the ancestral cultural paradigms followed by their society. Furthermore, Prof. Fonseca's work of literary criticism presents this narrative as characteristic of literary discourse, and through a dialogue with various eminent voices of Brazilian Literary Criticism corroborates the need to consider indigenous narratives as part of the literary culture of Latin America and of the multiple voices of Brazil.