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| Author(s): |
André Souza da Silva
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: | 2024-02-15 |
| Examining board members: |
Aparecida de Fatima Bueno;
Fabiana Buitor Carelli;
Leonardo Garcia Santos Gandolfi;
Edimara Lisbôa Marteleto
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| Advisor: | Aparecida de Fatima Bueno |
| Abstract | |
This essay presents the reading of Valter Hugo Mães novel a máquina de fazer espanhóis (2010) from the analytical course of two characters: the narrator António Jorge da Silva Sr. Silva and his colleague from the asylum Cristiano Mendes da Silva Silva da Europa. Following the first character, we seek to understand Portugals image when confronted with the memory of Salazars dictatorship which ended on April 25, 1974, and, through the eyes of the second, the aftermath of the countrys admission to the (then) European Economic Community on January 1, 1986, whose analysis leads us to discuss Spains influence in Portugals imaginary. Thus, from the perspective of both Silvas and theoretical studies by Eduardo Lourenço (1978), Margarida Calafate Ribeiro (2004), Maurice Halbwachs (1991), Fredric Jameson (2007), Ecléa Bosi (1979) and Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2011), we aim to demonstrate how this book faces ancient places from the past, welcomes a future with less colonial mythology, and discusses the present by proposing a new fate for the Portuguese history. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/02591-2 - Without ceiling, among ruins: the image of Portugal in A Machine to Make Spaniards, by Valter Hugo Mãe |
| Grantee: | André Souza da Silva |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |