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Contrapuntos órficos: Mitografía brasileña y el mito de Orfeo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Germán Campos-Muñoz*
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
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Este artículo propone una genealogía crítica de la trilogía escénica brasileña compuesta por la tragedia Orfeu da Conceição (1956) de Vinicius de Moraes; el filme Orfeu negro (1959), dirigido por Marcel Camus y el filme Orfeu (1999), dirigido por Carlos Diegues. Mediante el análisis comparado de los procesos creativos de estas obras, y de los múltiples vínculos ideológicos e históricos que las enlazan, mi ensayo demuestra la manera en que el viejo mito griego de Orfeo reconfigura y actualiza su carácter mítico en el Brasil escénico del siglo XX, en una trayectoria que recorre el teatro y el cine, el jazz y la bossa nova, el negocio del espectáculo y los discursos de identidad en Brasil, Francia, los Estados Unidos, y sus respectivas lenguas. Termino con una síntesis de estos procesos, recuperando el bosquejo mitológico de mi introducción a la luz de una reflexión general sobre mitografía.

Abstract

Abstract

This article proposes a critical genealogy of the Brazilian dramatic trilogy composed of the tragedy Orfeu da Conceição (1956) by Vinicius de Moraes; the film Orfeu negro (1959), directed by Marcel Camus; and the film Orfeu (1999), directed by Carlos Diegues. Through a comparative analysis of the creative processes of these works and their multiple ideological and historical links, the article shows how the old Greek myth of Orpheus reconfigures its mythical character in the theatrical arts of twentieth-century Brazil. I thus outline a trajectory that traverses theater and cinema, jazz and bossa nova, and show business and discussions of identity, moving throughout the territories and languages of Brazil, France, and the United States. I conclude with a summary of these processes that both refers back to the elements of the Orphic myth as discussed in the introduction and also situates them in a broader reflection on mythography.

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Copyright © 2012 by the Latin American Studies Association

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