Banca de DEFESA: JOATAN DAVID FERREIRA DE MEDEIROS

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STUDENT : JOATAN DAVID FERREIRA DE MEDEIROS
DATE: 29/07/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: CCHLA
TITLE:

LUÍS DA CÂMARA CASCUDO AND ROBERT LEHMANN-NITSCHE: CULTURAL TRANSFERS FROM THE SERTÃO TO PAMPA

KEY WORDS:

Luís da Câmara Cascudo. Robert Lehmann-Nitsche. Cultural Transfers. Brazil and Argentina. Comparative Literature

PAGES: 110
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Comparada
SUMMARY:

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. From the research documentary expansion and the need to delimit a new study object, this thesis fulfills another stage of revisions and discussions in the field of these mobilities, proposing an analytical reading of the correspondence between Câmara Cascudo and Robert Lehmann-Nitsche, which took place in the 1920s and 1930s. Settling in Argentina between 1897 and 1930, where he developed his main function as director of the Anthropology Department of the Museo de La Plata, the German ethnologist was one of the most relevant researchers of the popular traditions and folklore of that country, acting as an important intermediary in the import and export cultural processes of goods between Europe and South America. The dialogue between the two authors, carried out in a intense circulation context of ideas in Latin America at the beginning of the 20th century, is testimony to a dynamic of spirit, transversal to borders, through which artists and intellectuals sought to understand national issues through the regional element. Situated in this 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) which, since the 1960s, point to the need for decolonization and the construction of one's own analysis and interpretation. Given the transdisciplinary nature of comparative studies, this research also seeks theoretical-methodological guidelines in the Intellectual History  (DOSSE, COSTA) and in the area of Cultural Transfers (ESPAGNE, RODRIGUES), in order to suggest a characterization of mediation processes, taking as based on the detailed actions of Luís Câmara Cascudo as a “passeur culturel” in the evidenced context.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1675070 - JOSE LUIZ FERREIRA
Interno - 1299003 - DERIVALDO DOS SANTOS
Externo à Instituição - HUMBERTO HERMENEGILDO DE ARAUJO - UFRN
Externa à Instituição - MARIA SUELY DA COSTA - UEPB
Externo à Instituição - WELLINGTON MEDEIROS DE ARAUJO - UERN