Cassiano Ricardo e Jorge Amado: projetos identitários na literatura e na imprensa 1940-1943

Abstract

This research, whose nature is oriented to study of projects aimed at national identity and political processes, intends to specifically discuss the political militancy and the political processes, intends to specifically discuss the political militancy and the nation’s literary projects: Cassiano Ricardo and Jorge Amado in the spaces of literature and the press during the Estado Novo. It is summarily necessary for this dissertation to think and problematize the paths chosen and followed by the authors and the spaces in which they built their nation projects. The authors’ literature is not only found on the pages written by them, they create meaning for investigation of history as we think united to the life and social conflicts of the time of the writer. The newspaper A Manhã, from Rio de Janeiro, contributed by Cassiano Ricardo and the newspaper O Imparcial da Bahia, in which Jorge Amado wrote, were fruitful sources for the research, in addition to the novel O Cavaleiro da Esperança, by Jorge Amado and the book of poems, Martim Cererê, by Cassiano Ricardo. Thus, having the years 1940 to 1943as a time frame, we question how the political practices of the aforementioned authors influenced literary creations in a way that led to formulations of different ideas of nation. Thus, the primary objective was to analyze the literary practices of these authors who experienced the Estado Novo, seeking to understand the various relationships established between the government and/or political parties and the intellectuals of the time and the extent to which the dictatorship of the Estado Novo influenced these perceptions and in literary creations themselves. Thus, we analyzed the sources of the press and literature together, observing the possible dialogues between them, as well as the interactions between literature and history, thinking in new aspects about the dictatorship of the Estado Novo.