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| Author(s): |
Mariana Adami
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2021-12-23 |
| Examining board members: |
José Alves de Freitas Neto;
Miriam Gárate;
Felipe de Paula Góis Vieira
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| Advisor: | José Alves de Freitas Neto |
| Abstract | |
The work analizes the journalistic and literary production of the Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1998), between 1952 and 1968 - a period marked by the growing authoritarianism of the State, culminating in the Tlatelolco Massacre. During these seventeen years, Garro lives in Mexico and writes most of her journalistic and literary work, dialoguing with the political debates of her period. Publishing twelve theatre plays, four novels and one collection of short stories, besides collaborating with many newspapers - the main ones being Novedades, Presente!, Siempre!, Sucesos [para todos], ¿Por qué?, Revista de América, Revista Mexicana de Literatura - the writer produces a great number of works that mark her debut on the intellectual world and her recognition as an author. Reading the fictional and non-fictional texts of Elena Garro throughout her books, newspapers and magazines, we tried to identify which were the main subjects and arguments of her texts, who were her interlocutors and what was her place inside the Mexican public debate, at mid-20th century. By means of her publications and their repercussion in the public sphere, we aimed to map out – beyond the consensual opinion that she was a good writer - how Elena Garro was known and became an exponent of the ideas of revaluation of the Mexican Revolution and the social and political guidelines. Mainly, analized and discussed how the author called upon past and present in the texts for reading historical process and interpreting her reality, in the 1950 and 1960's decades (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/25947-4 - Elena Garro: an intellectual and her battles. Press, literature and politics in Contemporary Mexico (1952-1968) |
| Grantee: | Mariana Adami |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |