From Recife on the 1920's to Rio de Janeiro on the 1930's : Jose Lins do Rego, regionalism and tradition

Author(s)

Mariana Miggiolaro Chaguri

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2007-03-26

Examining board members

Elide Rugai Bastos; Andre Botelho; Antonio Arnoni Prado

• Advisor: Elide Rugai Bastos

Abstract

This research aims at reconstructing some aspects of José Lins do Rego's intellectual trajectory between the late 1920s and the late 1940s, with a focus on his novels the Ciclo da Cana-de-Açúcar and on his chronicles. The analysis starts with the reconstruction of the intellectual¿s contexts lived by the author in the 1920s in Recife (giving particular attention to the Regionalism and to the way as this get importance on the José Lins¿s novels and on his chronicles) and in Rio de Janeiro between the late 1930s and the late 1940s (the place and the moment of the literary consecration of the author). Following this, the esthetic and politics controversies in which the author was involved throughout the 1920s are analyzed. In the same way, the literary review is also analyzed and taken as a conductor wire that allows exploring the hypothesis of the Regionalism as an operation for the national unit. Finally, the research dedicates itself at study the Ciclo da Cana-de- Açúcar's novels exploring the deadlocks of the process of modernization of the sugar cane¿s farming in Brazil¿s northeastern (AU)