From Caderno de Geographia to O Nosso Ceará: the geographic and telluric in Rachel de Queiroz

• Grant number: 13/06106-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: July 01, 2013
• End date: September 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Livia de Oliveira
• Grantee: Tiago Vieira Cavalcante
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The paper seeks to examine two little books related to the life and work of the writer Rachel de Queiroz from Ceará. They are: the "Caderno de Geographia", with handwritten notes on geography that Rachel learned as a student of the Imaculada Conceição College in Fortaleza, still with 12 years old and "O Nosso Ceará", book she wrote as an adult, along with their sister Maria Luiza, representative of love for their land. The first document is a unique school geography of the 20s of last century, which presents the geographic content taught to students in those days. The second is a book that presents the geography from Ceará, evoking the memories and experiences of the author in these places. Both represent the affective relationship that the author had with the geographical discipline. In this context, we aimed to capture the telluric and geographic elements of these two books, relating them to the life and work of Rachel de Queiroz. Rachel as a girl and a student interested by the narratives landscapes of their writers and a beloved Rachel and adult writer who made a point of letting his contribution on the geographical Northeast / Ceará and clear passion for their land. Two different moments in time and space converge on the spatiality and geographicity featuring his life and his work. (AU)

Academic Publications

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

CAVALCANTE, Tiago Vieira. Literary geography in Rachel de Queiroz. 2016. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas. Rio Claro Rio Claro.