Athenians and man of letters of Rio de Janeiro : the invention of national canon / Atenienses e fluminenses : a invenção do canone nacional

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

This work intends to investigate the formation of the Brazilian literature canon in the 19 century and intends to comprehend how this process is politically entailed to a nationality project. Assured that the literature is the most visible and symptomatic manifestation of nationality speeches among the first romantic s writers (grouped in "maranhenses" and "fluminenses"), this study identify the invention of the brazilian s literary canon itself. Our purpose is identify the manifestations of nativism and nationality that passed trought great part of our 19 century s literature, analyzing the behavior of this literary field as an epiphenomenon of the field of power. Otherwise, these political manifestations may happen differently in each group of intellectuals and writers: following the whole 19 century we can see the developing and decadence of the both groups, while the athenian s period is interrupted in the middle of the 19 century, the fluminense s period will try an overliving among the 19 and 20 centuries. This text wants to produce a new description of the building process of the Brazilian civilization, as well as seeks the "construction of the order" in its various levels and social-historical aspects, taking the investigation of the canon, and it s genesis, as an instrument to detect the historicity of the conformation of our literary history, observing its processes of selection and exclusion, the ideological motivations and the structures of its speeches. In this way, we also study, simultaneously with the literary and historical sources research, the analysis of the social s and artistic s practices that belongs to the 19 century s literary field. We consider that the literary field and the field of power (political and economical) they had the conception of recently created nationality. At the same time, we comprehend the way that this both groups reacted before the social and political transformations that mobilized the Brazilian life in this period: this transformations can be symptomatically conceived when we observe the formation of the canon. In this way, we intend to stimulate a discussion about the meanings of Brazilian s process of emancipation, and about its own project of nationality expressed beyond the canon. The objective is understanding the way that the literary field understood and merged its own values beyond the time, the way that its created its proper myths, how it marked its own collective habitus, how this field watched and constructed its own past, how it carried itself in the middle of the social s and cultural s practices in the north of Brazil (and among all the country). Otherwise, we due to understand how the literary canon constructed its own idea of nation, its own idea of culture, and particularly, of literature

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historiography maranhão literatura brasileira rio de janeiro (estado) romantismo romantism historiografia brazilian literature

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