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Anti-communist representations in the periodical Musu Lietuva based on the serial novel Ten Anapus (There on the Other Side, 1950-51)

Grant number: 24/05105-0
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Master
Start date: September 01, 2024
Status:Discontinued
Field of knowledge:Humanities - History - History of Brazil
Principal Investigator:Valéria dos Santos Guimarães
Grantee:Lucca Ninni Indriunas
Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Franca. Franca , SP, Brazil
Associated scholarship(s):24/19985-1 - ANTICOMUNIST REPRESENTATIONS ON THE PERIODICAL MUSU LIETUVA BASED ON THE ROMAN-FEUILLETON TEN ANAPUS (THERE ON THE OTHER SIDE, 1950-51), BE.EP.MS

Abstract

Founded by Lithuanian priest Pijus Ragazinskas, the periodical Musu Lietuva (Our Lithuania, SP, 1948-2015, henceforth ML) had an editorial line based on the defense of Lithuanian nationalism and conservative Catholicism (Roman Catholic, as in Brazil), and also took part in the anti-communist struggle. Between 1950 and 1951, ML published the serial novel Ten Anapus (There on the Other Side), written by Povilas Vonzodas, which chronicled the struggles of the partisans against the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, which began in 1940. The corpus of the project consists of this feuilleton in its entirety. The main objective of the research is to analyze the anti-communist representations present in the periodical, focusing on the aforementioned feuilleton, as well as to understand how the perspective adopted by its editors was articulated to the Brazilian historical context, in a period of broad adherence by important sectors of society to the agendas of combating a supposed communist threat. Emphasis will also be placed on analyzing the role played by the conservative Catholic sector of the Lithuanian colony involved in the publication, in order to find out if it had any kind of relationship with Brazilian groups of the same orientation. Based on the recurring representation of the "Soviet hell" in Povilas Vonzodas' writing, it was possible to formulate the hypothesis of a Soviet Union understood as a symbol of retrogression not only in occupied Lithuania, but throughout the world, which seems to have been of great relevance to this group of Lithuanians living in the capital of São Paulo. To this end, based on the results of the research carried out during the Scientific Initiation on ML, we intend to start systematizing the corpus by surveying and describing recurring subjects, forming series organized by major axes, to be dictated by the internal logic of the sources. With regard to the theoretical framework, in order to systematize ML's vision of communism and the Soviet world, the concept of representation proposed by Roger Chartier will be used at first, but other theoretical references will be considered during the course of the research, especially those relating to the concept of political culture based on the works of Antoine Prost and Jean-François Sirinelli, among others. ML can also be understood as the result of cultural exchanges between Brazil and Lithuania, in other words, the notion of cultural transfers, as articulated by Michel Espagne, will be very useful for the reflections proposed here.

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