INTELLECTUALS' REPRESENTATIONS IN DEFEATED AND DEGENERATED, OF NASCIMENTO DE MORAES

Abstract

Analysis of the intellectual representations in the chronicle-romance of José do Nascimento Morais, published in 1915. Intend to investigate the vicissitudes of the intellectual conditions in a peripheral literary field, such as the Maranhão in the First Republic, in particular the performance conditions of the intellectual activity, survival possibilities and the relationship between the literary and political fields. Nascimento Moraes was a polygraph with intense regional activity that was characterized as military in the resistance during the most of the First Republic. His peculiar approach of the processes and social agents, arising from his subaltern position, may offer point of views which can enlighten the social and political relationships that were connected with the Maranhão’s intellectuals in that period of time. Intend to explore the possibilities that the literary text offers, in this case the chronicle-romance Vencidos e Degenerados, in the comprehension of the preterit temporality.