Monteiro Lobato and the national formation (c.1914-1941).

Author(s)

André Gilberto da Silva Fróes

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (IEB)
• Defense date: 2014-03-18

Examining board members

Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa; Fernando Augusto Magalhaes Paixao; Bernardo Ricupero

• Advisor: Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa

Abstract

The present work deals with the trajectory and the intellectual production of Monteiro Lobato and the way it is connected with the national question, expressed in the writer\'s perspective as malformação (concept that defines the national formation as an incomplete process). In this sense, the research tried to investigate the distinctive approaches to the problem in two specific moments of the author\'s itinerary, which were connected with different periods of national historical experience: the Lobato\'s initial literary project (c.1914-1925), associated with São Paulo\'s nationalism which was under construction and the elaboration effort of national particularity, in a context of questions about the Brazilian nation viability; and the attempt to implement, during the 1930 decade, a specific proposal for economic modernization, at that time formulated as the author\'s answer to the to the challenge of national formation. This is a research of multidisciplinary character that transits in the areas of cultural history and the economic history, handling concepts from sociology and procedures from literary criticism. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/16789-7 - Monteiro Lobato and the national formation (c. 1918-1941)
• Grantee: André Gilberto da Silva Fróes
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master