Global Journal of Human Social Science, G: Linguistics and Education, Volume 25 Issue 3

© 2025. Vanessa Ramos da Silva. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/ 4.0/. The Mythical, Political, and Poetic Crossroads: The Ethnographic Writing of Itamar Vieira Junior in Torto Arado By Vanessa Ramos da Silva Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Abstract- This article proposes a reflection on the literary writing of Itamar Vieira Júnior in the novel Torto Arado (2019), based on the concept of ethnographic writing and articulating contributions from Lélia Gonzalez (1984), Clifford Geertz (1989), Walter Benjamin (1994), Antonio Candido (2004; 2006), Braun (2012), Nesimi (2019), among other authors. The analysis focuses on the construction of a "diasporic literary phenomenon," in which mythology, politics, and poetry intersect within a narrative that translates the listening to racialized and territorialized bodies in the Brazilian hinterlands (sertão). The discussion is guided by the hypothesis that the textual construction represents a subjective-objective process in which the author acts as an ethno–translator. From this perspective, the crossroads is explored as a symbolic and epistemological category, and literature as a form of social mediation. The crossroads, in this sense, materializes the entanglement of multiple temporalities, identities, and knowledge systems present in the narrative, reinforcing the author's role as a mediator between the lived experience of sertão communities and their literary representation. Keywords: torto arado, ethno–translation, amefrican crossroads, diasporic literature. GJHSS-G Classification: LCC Code: PQ9698.437 TheMythicalPoliticalandPoeticCrossroadsTheEthnographicWritingofItamarVieiraJuniorinTortoArado Global Journal of H UMAN- S OCIAL S CIENCE: G Linguistics & Education Volume 25 Issue 3 Version 1.0 Year 2025 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-460X & Print ISSN: 0975-587X Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: