As representações da cultura caipira nos escritos de Cornélio Pires: tradição, identidade, política e cotidiano (1910-1932)

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Elton Bruno
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/22205
• topic: Pires, Cornelio [1884-1958] - Crítica e interpretação; Cultura caipira; Regionalismo na literatura; Pires, Cornelio [1884-1958] - Criticism and interpretation; Caipira culture; Regionalism in literature; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

These writings analyze the representations of the caipira elaborated by the writer Cornélio Pires from the books that he published between 1910 and 1932. The caipiras traditions approached by the writer indicate his process of writing from his experiences and experiences constructed in the rural environment throughout his life. The use of orality in the text indicates the sensitivity of the writer in the use of the language spoken by the peasants, pointing out a concern with the recognition of the identity for the caipira. On this question, Cornélio categorized ethnically the caipiras into whites, caboclos, blacks and mulattoes, particularizing characteristics and dialoguing with the sanitarists, hygienists, eugenicists and sertanistas proposals in force in the period. Cornelio‟s literature contained a political project that sought to include peasants in the debates about nationality, for which the writer advocated the expansion of schooling and agricultural improvements brought by agronomic discourses. In the representations of Cornélio, the countryman appeared as intelligent and astute and found an outlet for the difficulties from the networks of sociabilities and solidarities created in the communities, the contacts with the relatives and neighbors who participated in joint efforts and friendly coexistence of hospitality that involved the receptions in festivities or in their homes, always sharing the food. The memories of the times lived in the countryside accompanied the writer who described in his books several caipiras dishes and the importance of the cuisine to the feeling of cultural belonging. His books can be seen as a form of resistance to the de-structuring of the country's culture, recording their experiences and experiences, while showing concern for the adaptation of the farmers to progress, narrating changes in the territories of the interiors, as well as an action policy of preservation of the cultural heritage of the caipiras