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| Author(s): |
Diogo Barbosa Maciel
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2017-09-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Fernanda Arêas Peixoto;
Ana Claudia Scaglione Veiga de Castro;
Silvana de Souza Nascimento;
Heloisa André Pontes
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| Advisor: | Fernanda Arêas Peixoto |
| Abstract | |
This research aims to analyze António de Alcântara Machados work, focusing on many dimensions of São Paulo city treated by him. Recognized on Brazilian literature mostly by Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda, his short story book about Italian and Italian-Brazilian presence in the city, the writer is an active character in the cultural worlds of São Paulo in the beginning of the 20th century, specially by his participation in the modernists groups. From the range of perspectives provided by literature, journalism, history and theater criticism, I follow his reflections on a series of themes, including the role of São Paulo on the modernization of the Brazilian theater; the creation of Brazilian and paulista identities, the presence of foreign ideas on the cultural life and aesthetics of the city; and debates on race, class and spatial segregation. I draw special attention to the relations between city and culture, themes that bring us back to the tense coexistence between characters living in the spaces of the city; to the debates about nation and nationalism; to the new social composition and transformations in progress in São Paulo. In the first part of the work, I pursue the way in which Alcântara Machado, acting as a theatrical and urban critic, observes and contributes to the production of the city, suggesting interventions either in the urban space or in the Brazilian theater, guided by a very specific nationalist conception, which proposes a dip in the national roots, while placing São Paulo as the protagonist of the history of the country. In Part II, I investigate the apparitions of six characters of the city observed by the writer caipiras, bachelors and civil servants, women, children, Italians (and Italian-Brazilians) and blacks who compose an eloquent gallery in relation to the unequal way in which the speech of progress is appropriated and experienced by different groups. I conclude by suggesting a more qualified view of the work and of the writer, more attentive to the importance of theater and marginal social types in the whole of his thoughts, a view that is more committed to the complexity of the picture of the city he raises and to the articulations between the different genres in which he wrote. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/11275-6 - Alcântara Machado and the creation of São Paulo: characters, spaces and experiences |
| Grantee: | Diogo Barbosa Maciel |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |