Rubem Braga and the weekly Comício: city, politics and press in the 1950's

• Grant number: 09/03378-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2009
• End date: February 28, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz
• Grantee: Samantha dos Santos Gaspar
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 08/55377-3 - Formation of the intellectual field and the culture industry in contemporary Brazil, AP.TEM

Abstract

The aim of this master's project is to analyze the chronicles of Rubem Braga written between the years 1930 and 1960. We will select the texts that exhibit more emphatically the thematic of country/city and rural/urban life, pointing out which concepts and values are shown in the author's representations concerning these two types of localities. In addition, documents of that time will be studied, such as magazines and newspapers clippings, in order to grasp both the social position of the writer and the reception that the images propagated by him had in the period in question. The research will also attempt to comprehend the kind of dialog between these chronicles and the national context, marked by the processes of modernization, industrialization and urbanization.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

GASPAR, Samantha dos Santos. Rubem Braga and the Comício newspaper: city, politics and the press in the second Vargas government. 2012. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.