Educação e cultura: um estudo de caso sobre a Festa Literária de Duque de Caxias na Festa de Santo Antônio

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the Literary Festival of Duque de Caxias that took place between 2013 and 2016 within the framework of the Festa de Santo Antônio, one of the most traditional popular festivals in the city, where its patron saint is honored. The central focus is the social, economic and political arrangements that involve the annual Festa de Santo Antônio, in the city of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro. The Literary Festival took place mainly in the morning and afternoon and had its own extensive program, with cultural presentations, book launches, among others. In order to carry out this research, fieldwork was carried out between 2013 and 2016, in addition to interviews with cultural agents, devotees, party organizers and government agents. However, I emphasize that for this work specifically, the main narrator was professor Antônio Carlos Oliveira, historian, who was Director of the Leonel de Moura Brizola Library, work of Oscar Niemeyer, located in Praça do Pacificador and who was the creator of the Literary Festival , bringing in addition to information about its conception, also important social issues that must be highlighted in order to value not only the Festa de Santo Antônio, which is one of the main festivals in the city, but also the cultures and cultural agents of the city. It is substantial to highlight the proposal of a Festival taking place within another Festival, merging, as a way of attracting attention precisely aiming at its appreciation.