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| Author(s): |
Cristina Carla Sacramento
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação |
| Defense date: | 2018-03-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Heloísa Helena Pimenta Rocha;
Norma Sandra de Almeida Ferreira;
Marcus Vinícius Fonseca;
Manuel Jauará;
Arnaldo Pinto Junior
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| Advisor: | Heloísa Helena Pimenta Rocha |
| Abstract | |
This work analyzes the discourses about the blacks in four didactic books of History of Brazil published in the period between 1831 and 1887, namely: Resumo da Historia do Brasil até 1828 (Henrique Luiz de Niemeyer Bellegarde, 1831); Episodios da Historia Patria contados á infancia (Joaquim Caetano Fernandes Pinheiro, 1860); Lições de Historia do Brasil: para uso das escolas de instrucção primaria (Joaquim Manoel de Macedo, 1865) and Pequena História do Brazil por perguntas e respostas: para uso da infancia brazileira (Joaquim Maria de Lacerda, 1887). The temporal cut was defined in terms of the publication date of the works in line with the enactment of abolitionist laws, given that in the 19th century slavery was still vigente in Brazil, while there was a social and political mobilization aimed at the freedom of enslaved subjects. In another dimension, the work took into account that at the end of the 1830s the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute (IHGB) and the Pedro II School (CP II) were created. These institutions were responsible, respectively, for the collection, archiving and publication of documents related to the History of Brazil, and also for the elaboration of teaching programs that consolidated the History of Brazil as a school discipline. In this sense, textbooks were the privileged "support" for the teaching of this discipline, whose recipients were the teachers and students of educational institutions, at a time when it was intended to build the national identity. The selection of the sources privileged the first editions of the work under analysis¿ and, when this was not possible, the first edition next to the first one was used ¿ dedicated to primary education, with the purpose of examining how the black population was represented in the nineteenth century, trying to apprehend the textual and typographic devices through which it was sought to constitute reading and configure a certain way of thinking these subjects. The analyzes are based on Michel Foucault¿s contributions, especially his conceptions of discourse and dispositive, and Roger Chartier, with regard to his elaborations on reading the world as representation. It was also sought, from the contributions of Chartier, to capture the textual and typographic devices through which it was tried to constitute the reading and to configure a certain way of thinking the black population. It was possible to verify that the discourses produced in the didactic books of History of Brazil were directly related to the political project carried out by the members of IHGB, considering the alignment of their didactic productions to a historiographical perspective that prioritized great achievements and great heroes. In this sense, the "men of letters" of the empire sought to omit or cover superficially slavery, understood as a reality incompatible with a nation that was intended to be civilized, while representing the "colored men", enslaved or free, as isolated cases of praiseworthy or reprehensible conduct, in episodes considered significant and even decisive in the process of consolidating Brazil as an independent nation (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/15967-7 - Discourses and knowledges about negroes in nineteenth-century Brazilian history textbooks |
| Grantee: | Cristina Carla Sacramento |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |