Critical connections of Ana Cristina Cesar: new views about Brazilian literature of the 20TH century

• Grant number: 22/11736-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: March 01, 2023
• End date: April 30, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Viviana Bosi
• Grantee: Raquel Machado Galvão
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 23/08807-2 - Critical connections of Ana Cristina Cesar: new views about Brazilian literature of the 20TH century, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

This is an investigation about the critical activity of Ana Cristina Cesar (1952 - 1983) in the 1970s and 1980s, based on the analysis of her contributions to the press and her marginalia, in other words, manuscripts and notes in books from her personal library. The research intends to detail how the writer renewed and expanded the criticism of Brazilian literature of the 20th century, approaching literary aspects not previously explored in her work. At first, we propose to generate discussions about the influences of two relevant critics and historians of Brazilian literature on Ana Cesar's intellectual trajectory: Mário de Andrade (1893 - 1945) and Antonio Candido (1918 - 2017). In addition to reconstituting the writer's collaborations to Opinião, Jornal do Brasil, Almanaque and Folha de São Paulo, which directly mention both of them, the writings in the margins of the books of critics that belonged to Cesar, already identified in her collection, will be analyzed, as the collection of essays Aspectos da literatura brasileira (1946) by Mário de Andrade and the two volumes of Formação da literatura brasileira: momentos decisivos (1971, 4 ed.) by Antonio Candido.