Representações da cidade de Goiânia em contos de meados do século XX : imagens e discursos / Representations of the city of Goiania in tales of the mid- twentieth century, images and speeches

Kamila Lopes Morais

This dissertation has the urban problems as its study object, and its objective is to read the representations of Goiânia based on the short stories produced by goianos writers during the decades of 1960, 1970, and 1980. This way, 31 short stories were selected among the following writers: Alaor Barbosa, Alcyone Abrahão, José Mendonça Teles, Marietta Telles Machado, Maria Helena Chein and Dionísio Pereira Machado. In this perspective, some questions were problematized: is it possible to read‟ the city of Goiânia from the literary discourse? How can the theorization about literature and city analyze this city from the selected corpus? In what way does the option for the short story justify itself for the development of this work? Why does the chronological piece for the selection of short stories focus the decades of 1960 to 1980? For that, we can take some theorists and critics as the conductors for that they broach critical reflections about the short story and the relation between literature and the urban. In order to have an analysis of the corpus, the operational concepts of Calvino (1990) and Gomes (1994) were used based on a contrastive net of metaphors, such as: crystal, flame, labyrinth, city of the rat and the swallow; the allegorical picture of the flâneur; the mapping, as it was proposed by Lynch (1997), and the statement of the characters‟ footsteps according to what Certeau (2001) suggests. As a follow up, the study focused on specific historical outlined happenings since the transfer of the capital of Goiás and the construction of Goiânia, until the years 50 and 60 that correspond to a period of political, economic and cultural development, mainly on what concerns the establishment of the GEN (Grupo de Escritores Novos Group of New Writers), delimitating the moment when the stories were written. Therefore, the research was directed to the analysis that demonstrated the moment when Goiânia is simply imagined (projected) by the characters, once they are not in the city yet, until the moment when the city is undergone, once the place where the episodes happen are lived on the streets, avenues, stores, hospitals, buildings and the city squares. This way, literature, on its turn, writes the city, making it possible to learn it through the short stories that inscribe it

Representações da cidade de Goiânia em contos de meados do século XX : imagens e discursos / Representations of the city of Goiania in tales of the mid- twentieth century, images and speeches

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