The black as theme as subject in the work of Abdias do Nascimento: 1944-1968

• Grant number: 13/27014-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: September 01, 2014
• End date: May 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Marina de Mello e Souza
• Grantee: Gabriel dos Santos Rocha
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research will address the work of Abdias do Nascimento during 1944, the year he founded the Black Experimental Theater, to 1968 when he published the first edition of The Black appalled. Through it we seek to analyze how social issues related to black in Brazil are problematized in the work of this author, artist and activist also of great importance to the black movement in an emergency period of a new consciousness among intellectuals and activists around the experimental theatre the black on race relations in our country: a time of gradual break with the ideology of Brazilian racial democracy and the emergence of blackness that will bring the proposed approach of the African cultural heritage as a means of affirmation of a positive identity for blacks Brazilians. The research also seek contributions which examine the work of Nascimento brings to black studies in Brazil. (AU)

Academic Publications

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

ROCHA, Gabriel dos Santos. The black people in Abdias do Nascimento intellectual productions, 1944-1968. 2016. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.