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

• Grant number: 23/08807-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: October 02, 2023
• End date: December 01, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Viviana Bosi
• Grantee: Raquel Machado Galvão
• Supervisor: Michel Robert Jean Riaudel
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 22/11736-7 - Critical connections of Ana Cristina Cesar: new views about Brazilian literature of the 20TH century, BP.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), through the records of the margins of the books of the critics already identified in the writer's collection and inside the thoughts disseminated in critical collaborations for Opinião, Jornal do Brasil, Almanaque and Folha de São Paulo. The internship period at the UFR d'Études ibériques et latino-américaines at the Sorbonne Université provides an addition of the initial corpus, with the critical reading of the thesis Intertextualité et transferts (Brésil, États-Unis, Europe): réécritures de la modernité poétique dans l'oeuvre d'Ana Cristina Cesar (2007), authored by the supervisor abroad Michel Riaudel, and the access to his personal collection centered on the writer, that will make possible explore other views of Ana Cristina Cesar on criticism, observing and evaluating the marginalia of books by others critics of Brazilian literature, such as Oswald de Andrade (1890 - 1954), Haroldo de Campos (1929 - 2003), Luiz Costa Lima and Roberto Schwarz. (AU)