Literatura conflagrada: Jorge Amado, Rubem Braga e Carlos Drummond de Andrade na trincheira dos anos 1930
Year: 2021
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The present dissertation revisits the Brazilian experiences of literary politicization in the 1930s.It attempts to discern and describe the emergence of an anti-literary sensibility, characterized in the Introduction of the work by investigating the diverse ways and strategies, with which the debate over that decade criticizes and tenses up the idea of literature and other notions associated with it.Based on this survey, the investigation axis intends to verify the productivity of the anti-artistic schism in the construction of works of different genres and authors.The First Part of the study demonstrates how the problem is configured in Jorge Amado's production, fuelled, between 1933 and 1934, by positions aligned with the Communist Party -and above all by the workerism that guides its militancy in the period.In this consists the framework of Amado's experiences of criticism and renewal of the novel form, whose contradictions materialise in the composition of Cacau, analysed in Chapter 1, and Suor, in Chapter 2. Our argument emphasises the novelist's attempts to create a proletarian and collective novel, the inconsistencies and failures of which expose the conditions and impasses of the communist cultural production in a peripheral country.The Agradecimentos
Author: Arthur Vergueiro Vonk
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4283694550