O ofício de escritor e as figurações do outro: engajamento e representações sociais em José Lins do Rego

Abstract

The political and cultural effervescence of the roaring 20s contributed for the rising of the northeasterner literature romances of the 30s. In those days, the intellectual political engagement was a need and, therefore, influencing art productions which conveyed political issues embraced by either right and left wings of the Brazilian society. Consequently, literature works asssumed a denounce attitude by exposing our social issues.The Brazilian literate one was caught among doubts and social tensioned struggles, therefore emerging the following intellectual personalities of the time: José Américo de Almeida (1887-1980), Rachel de Queiroz (1910-2003), Jorge Amado (1912-2001), José Lins do Rego (1901-1957) and Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953) whose stands are covered in the first part of this work. The second part takes the works written by José Lins do Rego in order to analyze the positioning of this writer towards the social affairs ot that period. By this token, we approach the debates highlighted by that author in his books . To identify the ways he took so as to deal with the boundaries of his featured characters - such as the black person and the poor woman, the continued slavery and its entangled widening over the 20th century. By comparing the answers given by José Lins in discussions held with other authors in the 30s, one spots the dialog among these writers, their standpoints and the limits surrounding them.