The business of feith: the creation of memory of the social transformations in San Nicolás through the playwriting

• Grant number: 22/15758-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2023
• End date: July 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Theatre
• Principal Investigator: Felisberto Sabino da Costa
• Grantee: Lena María Giuliano
• Supervisor: Alexandra da Silva
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France
• Associated to the scholarship: 22/05598-0 - The business of the feith: the transformation of the city of San Nicolas as a basis to the process of playwriting, BP.IC

Abstract

The research intends to study the process of the memory creation through the playwriting having on the basis the transformations of the city of San Nicolás, to the North of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the 1990 decade, that, of being the city of the steel, with one of the most important factory in the country, became the religious city of Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás, and how the politics applied reflected on the everyday life of the residents, thinking about the idea of counter-history. With fundamentals on the bibliographic and documental research about the historical facts, besides of theoretical research on how it should be approached on the playwriting when leading with a collective memory of a city, the research is intended to answer the matter: what memory do this dramaturgy wants to create for San Nicolás? Is intended to be supervised by the doctor professor Alexandra Moreira da Silva, specialist in dramaturgy and literature, and participate in the Research Group on Poetics and Modern and Contemporary Drama to expand the discussion and the perspectives on the playwriting when dealing with memory, to construct and complete the drama structure that will be written at the same period. With that, it is intended to reach a dramaturgy and a document that describes the process of the fictional writing that is permeated and has foundations on the real. (AU)