Jeca Tatu, Tatuzinho e Z? Brasil: uma representa??o da realidade brasileira nas d?cadas de 1910 a 1950

• Autor(a) principal: M?ller, Victor Hugo Neitzke
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRRJ
• Texto Completo: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/3354
• topic: Vida e obra de Monteiro Lobato,, ,; Personagens Jeca Tatu; Jeca Tatuzinho e Z? Brasil; Realidade brasileira; Monteiro Lobato's live and works; Characters Jeca Tatu; Brazilian reality; Educa??o

Many are the sources and ways of analyzing the multiple dimensions of the Brazilian reality. In this dissertation, Monteiro Lobato's literary production was chosen to be one of this sources, taking as material for analysis both adult's and children's literature. For this purpose, two main assumptions supported the research's proposal: the first one relates to the understanding that literature works as a mechanism of propagation of ideologies; and the second one stands on the idea that literature, many times, uses fictional characters to disseminate beliefs, values and purposes. The research intended to configure Brazilian reality, in the 1910 to 1950 decades, using as parameters the characters Jeca Tatu, Jeca Tatuzinho and Z? brasil, which are products of Monteiro Lobato's creativity. The investigation resulted from the interest of the researcher in Lobato's literature, and from the familiarity that he had with sharecroppers, who presented testimonials about the reality on the countryside. Characterized as bibliographical, this research used primary and secondary sources, which allowed a relevant literary revision, directed to the questions and objectives of the investigation. The concern of associating the literary production analyzed to the historical elements of the national and international context is kept, looking forward to highlight the political and ideological movements of each decade. This movements were also good to characterize Monteiro Lobato's thoughts and its implications on the production of his works and on the creation of his characters. The analysis performed allowed to perceive the transformation of this thought, indentifying Lobato as a racist and prejudiced being in first place, capable of mocking his aggregates, and that created the character Jeca Tatu, showing him as a lazy hick, a parasite who was responsible for the Brazilian social and economical delay. When he becomes a landowner, he assumes the identity of the "coronel" (the authoritarian landlord), getting involved with partisan politics and getting immediately disappointed. He lived tense experiences with figures of the modernist movement, his works being ignored by the members of this movement. He also dedicated to business activities, innovating the editorial market. It is believed that he was influenced by An?sio Teixeira's and Henry George's ideas, reasons that took to a huge transformation of his social and political thought, leading to the publication of Z? Brasil, a work considered as the most emblematic of Lobato's reflections around the countryside men and the Brazilian reality. This are the most relevant approaches in this Dissertation, which work as guidelines of the investigation's path. It is understood that the research also enabled the revealing of a processes that engendered/engender the relations between landowners and the ones who don't have any land, leading to the unwavering Agrarian Reform. This dissertation also opened horizons to further research concerning Brazilian reality.