Da Atenas Brasileira à Jamaica Brasileira: reflexões sobre processos de construção de identidades culturais da capital maranhense

• Autor(a) principal: Reis, Jovelina Maria Oliveira dos
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15097
• topic: Culture; Cultural identity; Communication; Memory; Narrative; Cultura. Identidade cultural. Comunicação. Memória. Narrativa; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

Study of the process of identity construction in the São Luís city. Of the various epithets by which the city is designated, are included here only the Brazilian Athens, Only Brazilian city founded by the French and Brazilian Jamaica. The purpose is to identify the social, political and cultural present in the specific context of each of these constructs. Are taken into account the Eurocentric model and existing cultural elitism in a society of the nineteenth century marked by categories dominant / dominated, literate culture / popular culture typical of conditions that gave rise to the establishment of the Brazilian Athens. Was analyzed the strategy that made a historic event for the establishment of a founding act of tradition and, by extension, the creation of cultural identity, a tactic that gave São Luís the first decade of the twentieth century, the designation of Only Brazilian city founded by the French, the same time which led to the revitalization of the first cultural identity. Finally, analysis of the advent of the Brazilian Jamaica in the 1970s, cultural identity deriving the masses and peripheral São Luís city, characterized by social exclusion and blackness, sensitive and strong appeal marked by the rhythm, the dance, reggae music of Jamaican origin. These studies had as epistemological theories from the fields of communication, cultural studies, memory and narrative. For this realization were done reading and analysis of bibliographical and documentary material, interviews and completed questionnaires. The study revealed that the processes of construction of cultural identities in the São Luís city were influenced by certain political and communicative action in different forms of mediation.