LUÍS DA CÂMARA CASCUDO: LITERARY MEDIATION FROM POTENGI TO PLATA
Câmara Cascudo; Cultural Mediations. Latin American Vanguards. Literary historiography. Brazil and Argentina.
In the 1920s, Luís da Câmara Cascudo was part of a prominent circuit of intellectual sociability that brought Brazilians and Argentines together in a movement that, through literature, covered paths for the affirmation of a Latin American political, artistic and cultural identity. Adding to the efforts of authors such as Monteiro Lobato, Mario de Andrade, Ronald de Carvalho among others, the author from Rio Grande do Norte became an important interlocutor in the journeys of ideas, goods and values through which artists and intellectuals in Brazil and Argentina aspired to a cultural development guided by mutual knowledge and the construction of understandings within the continent itself. These data are part of the records of the master's research “Câmara Cascudo and intellectual Argentina: a darnel in the Latin American harvest” (MEDEIROS, 2016), presented to the Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da Linguagem (PPgEL/UFRN), which reconstituted the itinerary of the author's approach to the platina cultural scene, distinguishing his role as receiver, disseminator and mediator of literary productions between the aforementioned cultural matrices. Based on the expansion of the documentary survey, this thesis completes another stage of revisions and discussions on the role of Câmara Cascudo in the field of these mobilities, proposing a discussion on his action as a literary mediator between Brazil and Argentina in the context of the artistic vanguards of the 1920s. Set in that time-space, this study is linked to the new perspectives of comparative literature and Latin American literary historiography (CANDIDO, RAMA, NITRINI, COUTINHO, PIZARRO, PERRONE-MOISÉS) that, since the 60s, point to the need for decolonization and for the construction of an analysis and interpretation of their own. Given the transdisciplinary characteristic of comparative studies, this research also seeks theoretical-methodological guidelines in the Intellectual History (SIRINELLI, DOSSE, PALTI, LOPES) and in the field of Cultural Mediations (MARTÍN-BARBERO; ESPAGNE, GRUZINSKI) in order to suggest a characterization of Literary Mediation processes, based on the detailed action of Luís da Câmara Cascudo in the delimited time frame.