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| Author(s): |
Marcello Giovanni Pocai Stella
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: | 2018-10-31 |
| Examining board members: |
Luiz Carlos Jackson;
Augusto Massi;
Flavio Rosa de Moura;
Fernando Antonio Pinheiro Filho
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| Advisor: | Luiz Carlos Jackson |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation seeks to understand the social origins and trajectories of contemporary Brazilian writers of fictional prose (short story, chronicle and novel), which debuted after the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship. It was taken for the time frame 1988, which marks through the new constitutional charter the guarantee of freedom of expression and put an end to the possibility of prior censorship. From this, several surveys of morphological characteristics of the authors were carried out on web pages of publishers from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, for instance: Companhia das Letras, Cosac Naify, Editora 34, Boitempo, Patuá, Ofício das Palavras, 7 Letras, Record and Rocco. With data of socioeconomic profile of the authors i have proceeded to interviews and later analysis of the paths of construction of a trajectory that aims to reach the status of writer. From this it was necessary to think about the social position of writer in Brazil and its socio-genesis, as well as the emergence of the professional development of the various activities linked to literature: publishing, agency, criticism, etc. The focus on the professionalization of literature and its producers led to the formulation of a hypothesis that relates this process to an increasing influence of economic logics in the literary field. An expressive example of how it appears in the literary field is the trajectory of Milton Hatoum and the game of tensions and disputes around its construction as an author of the erudite pole, but at the same a writer that must increasingly adopt strategies of consecration of the pole of great circulation. Another development is the emergence of a group of authors refugees in university careers, when they cant afford a career dedicated only to literature, as well as the investment of several authors in other cultural texts (comics, audiovisual, theater, etc.), to make possible a life more dedicated to literature. In the first case, the university protects writers from an increasingly crowded market, and in the second case writers adhere to market promotion strategies in order to remain visible and viable. Aiming at the description and understanding of this dynamics we elaborate the typology writers-universitarian and universitarian-writers. The work was based on Pierre Bourdieu\'s field theory, and focused on the literary field the restricted (autonomous) production pole of literature. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/25559-6 - Literature as a vocation - Brazilian writers in post-democratization period |
| Grantee: | Marcello Giovanni Pocai Stella |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |