Primeiras crônicas machadianas: a representação do escravo no Diário do Rio de Janeiro (1864-1865)
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2017-02-22
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Amaral, Mirella Cordeiro do [UNESP]
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
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Este estudo examina a representação da escravidão em quatro crônicas da série Ao acaso (1864-1865), de Machado de Assis, publicadas no Diário do Rio de Janeiro. Como fundamentação teórica, o presente estudo utiliza o conceito de “representação” de Roger Chartier (1990), de acordo com o qual percebemos o mundo de formas múltiplas, forjadas por acontecimentos históricos, por um conjunto de interesses e de atores sociais. A História Cultural olha para essas práticas cotidianas para entender como os indivíduos e as instituições dão sentido aos discursos históricos. Sendo assim, o objetivo da presente pesquisa é compreender a relação entre crônica machadiana e mundo social, bem como de que forma essa mediação realizada pelo narrador-cronista alcançará os leitores. Busca-se também verificar como estas representações da escravidão dialogam com as outras formas textuais citadas na crônica machadiana, uma vez que os textos compartilham do mesmo espaço midiático (Thérenty 2007; Granja 2010). Além do mais, essa pesquisa procura examinar, a partir do que diz Thérenty (2007), o estado ambíguo entre ficção e narrativa do fato real coexistente nas crônicas e como suas fronteiras porosas geram trocas entre as várias rubricas dos textos dos periódicos. Desse modo, a hipótese sob investigação, portanto, é que o estudo das implicações do conceito de representação da escravidão nessas crônicas machadianas, e a análise dos diálogos entre as demais rubricas do jornal, podem ajudar a explicaras conexões de historicidade e aproximação entre processos artísticos e culturais nesse espaço midiático.
This study examines the representation of slavery in four chronicles from the series Ao acaso (1864-1865), by Machado de Assis, published in the Diário do Rio de Janeiro. Its theoretical background is Roger Chartier’s (1990) concept of “representation”, according to which we perceive the real world in multiple ways, forged by historical events, as well as a set of interests and social agents. Cultural History sees these everyday practices as ways to understand how individuals and the institutions assign meaning to historical discourses. Hence, the present study aims to understand the relationship between Machado’s chronicles and the social world, and how the mediation done by the narrator-chronicler reaches the audience. It also seeks to verify that these representations of slavery converse with the other texts Machado cites in his chronicles, since the former share the same space in the media (Thérenty 2007; Granja 2010). Besides, this study uses Thérenty’s (2007) ideas to examine the ambiguities coexisting in these selected chronicles between fiction and the telling of the actual fact, and to look into how their porous frontiers generate exchanges between various newspaper rubrics. Therefore, the hypothesis under investigation is that the study of the implications of the representation of slavery in the Machado de Assis’s chronicles, and the analysis of the dialogues with the other newspaper rubrics can help explain the links of historicity and approximation of artistic and cultural processes in this medium.
This study examines the representation of slavery in four chronicles from the series Ao acaso (1864-1865), by Machado de Assis, published in the Diário do Rio de Janeiro. Its theoretical background is Roger Chartier’s (1990) concept of “representation”, according to which we perceive the real world in multiple ways, forged by historical events, as well as a set of interests and social agents. Cultural History sees these everyday practices as ways to understand how individuals and the institutions assign meaning to historical discourses. Hence, the present study aims to understand the relationship between Machado’s chronicles and the social world, and how the mediation done by the narrator-chronicler reaches the audience. It also seeks to verify that these representations of slavery converse with the other texts Machado cites in his chronicles, since the former share the same space in the media (Thérenty 2007; Granja 2010). Besides, this study uses Thérenty’s (2007) ideas to examine the ambiguities coexisting in these selected chronicles between fiction and the telling of the actual fact, and to look into how their porous frontiers generate exchanges between various newspaper rubrics. Therefore, the hypothesis under investigation is that the study of the implications of the representation of slavery in the Machado de Assis’s chronicles, and the analysis of the dialogues with the other newspaper rubrics can help explain the links of historicity and approximation of artistic and cultural processes in this medium.
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Machado de Assis, Escravidão, Crônica, Representação, Literatura e História, Século XIX