LITERATURE AS A CONDITION: Notes to the analyses of entries into the literary career in contemporary Maranhão (1945-1964)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is the analysis of literary space of Maranhão from examining the socialprofiles of a set of agents who entered the literary career between the years 1945 and 1964. Our focus ison the relation between the social conditions of entry, investments and assets acquired and the positionsoccupied. Considering the absence of an autonomous unit of celebration in the social universe analyzedprivilege among the multiple logics and strategies for affirmation of these agents, the exam of the relationsthey establish in transit between the domains intellectual and political. Therefore, the notion of intellectualundertaken here aims to account for the association between these various domains and complementary toendure the 37 agents analyzed, mindful of the principles that guide their positions from their positionswithin an area social entity.