The text is dedicated to Torquato Neto. To the historical subject. Assuming the historicity of his trajectory and his work as a fundamental presupposition of the research. A study of the poet's artistic-intellectual trajectory is proposed, relating his intellectual formulations and aesthetic positions to historical and biographical landmarks, as we...
[ES] En 1946, Lina Bo Bardi desembarcó en las costas brasileñas, y desde ese momento comienza a emprender una nueva ruta tanto personal como profesional que la llevó a convertirse en una de las autoras más importantes del siglo XX. La obra de la arquitecta italiana amplió el alcance de los espacios construidos, incorporó nuevos conceptos y planteó ...
This text analyzes the feeling of bewilderment and inauthenticity of modern ideas in the backward context of the First Republic in Brazil. It is based on the ideas of two important and different authors of the period, Oliveira Vianna and Manoel Bomfim. It specifically seeks to show to what extent and in what way these authors express that feeling, ...
The word "zoeira" (loosely translated as "to mock" or "joke"), along with the phrases "a zoeira não tem limites" ("the zoeira has no limits") and "the zoeira never ends" (in English) became popular in the Brazilian internet around 2007. Brazilians would use these expressions to indicate that they never quit joking, even (or especially) in situation...
Since emerging as a geographic term at the beginning of the 20th Century, Brazil's "north-east" has grown to become a socioeconomic, political and cultural term tied to the region's subaltern position in a Brazilian hegemonic power structure defined by the south-east of the country. In the early 90s manguebeat emerged out of Recife (the traditional...
Après une propagation remarquable de la figure actorielle de l’homme « au foyer » conduite par les médias étrangers pendant les dernières décennies, il a également été observé dans la culture brésilienne, surtout dans les textes de culture de masse. Bien que considérée comme une « nouveauté » - ou précisément à cause de cela -, peu d’attention y a ...
Published in psychologie clinique
L’auteur explore le parcours créatif du peintre Arthur Bispo do Rosario. Il tient compte du projet qui est au principe de cette création picturale, soit « l’impératif du sacré ». L’artiste, peu soucieux de sa notoriété, ou du succès mercantile que pouvait rencontrer son travail a toujours déclaré clairement que tout ce qu’il avait réalisé n’était q...
Published in International Journal of Latin American Religions
In this brief article, we will discuss the historical development of Confucius images in Brazil. Without a relevant sinological tradition, Brazilians know little about Confucius and generally attribute a religious profile to the Chinese sage. However, the contemporary context has promoted a revision of this paradigm. Based on the theories of interc...
This article focuses on some inflections of Antonio Candido’s work: first, we present his historical perspective on Brazilian literature and culture in the “years of development” (1950s), which pointed to the integration of Brazil into the civilized nations club; in the sequence, the impact of the military coup d’état (1964) on the author’s thinkin...
This thesis uses the concept of the "zoeira", a particularly Brazilian form of humour, to undertake a cultural analysis of Brazilian internet memes and their role in contemporary culture. Through a close textual analysis of three memes, it details how memes represent specific aspects of Brazilian culture and how Brazilian meme culture relates to th...
