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ABSTRACT
The main aim of this work is to analyse the relations between memory and image in
the novels of José de Alencar, considering they as an important key to weave certains
configurations about brazilian identity, made around what we assume as a poetic of
restauration at Alencar´s work, as a theorist and a writter, figured on the picturial
metaphora of chiaroscuro – in the text architeture and as a metaphora of the bounderies
between history and story.
Our propose is to verify how these relations reveal the ficctional work as a potencial
memorialistic holder, able to create images into national imaginary´s, replacing images
built up by historic memory what allows the creation of a new point of view towards the
past in Alencar´s texts. On this way, what we called signs image´s productors – the
landscaped, the sea, the harbour, will be analysed, as well the role of the artist, figured by
these images.
Key-words: José de Alencar, Romanticism, Memory, Literature and Painting.