Name: ANA PAOLA LAEBER COSTA
Publication date: 30/11/2023
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| VIVIANA MONICA VERMES | Advisor |
Summary: In the context of 20th-century Brazilian modernity, marked by social changes and
intense debates on ethnic issues, racist theories propagated the idea of natural and
biological differences among human groups, using science to justify the alleged
inferiority of certain ethnic groups, such as the Black population. This drove the
analysis of the identity of socially marked groups in cultural and social studies. This
study focuses on the analysis of the lack of citizenship generated by racism,
establishing connections between the literary works of Lima Barreto, including Diário
Íntimo and Diário do Hospício (posthumously published in 1956), and the musical
compositions “Boa Esperança” and “Mandume” from the album Sobre Crianças,
Quadris, Pesadelos e Lições de Casa... (2015) by Leandro Roque de Oliveira, known
as Emicida. The research also adopts a theoretical approach that explores the social
and geographical spaces that influenced these writers, considering the historical
contexts of segregation and marginalization they faced. Although Lima Barreto and
Emicida belong to different periods and contexts, this study proposes a spiral and
dialogical analysis of the representations and identity reconstructions present in their
works. The research aims to shed light on the intersections between literature, music,
and identity, exploring how these two artists addressed issues of citizenship and
racism in their respective works, incorporating the insights of renowned scholars such
as Abdias do Nascimento, Carmen Lúcia Negreiros de Figueiredo, Kabengele
Munanga, Lilia Moritz Schwarz and Stuart Hall, among others.
