Banca de DEFESA: THIAGO VENICIUS DE SOUSA COSTA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : THIAGO VENICIUS DE SOUSA COSTA
DATE: 10/09/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Meet - Online
TITLE:

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KEY WORDS:

Body; Space; Sensitivity; History

PAGES: 243
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This thesis aims to analyze the debates raised about the production of corporealities by the Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto throughout his written and confessional production. This aspect allows us to visualize the organization of Rio de Janeiro city’s corporal-space during Brazil’s First Republic (1889-1930). The objective of this research is to show how the capacity for observation expressed in Barretos’s discourse, especially in his literary creation and in works directed at the Rio de Janeiro press, was mobilized by sensory experiences. Through sight, touch, smell, taste, and hearing, Lima Barreto achieved two important feats: being thrust into the world and creating awareness and memories about the uses of bodies. This circumstance made evident the importance of narrating, through penholder, the textures of the flesh of men and women of his time and, above all, exposing the forms of their physiological selves. Overall, there is a gap – or little development – in relation to a thorough critique of the emotions involved in Barreto’s production, which resulted in the silencing of his body, his rapture. This position poses the main problem of this research: to highlight the rebellions of the flesh in Barreto’s writing based on the sensory experiences that took shape in his critical and literary fortune. Thereby, by creating multiple ways of seeing and expressing the body, Barreto reveals how spaces were active agents in modulating corporealities.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - JOACHIN DE MELO AZEVEDO NETO - UPE
Externa à Instituição - CARMEM LÚCIA NEGREIROS DE FIGUEIREDO - UERJ
Presidente - ***.095.524-** - DURVAL MUNIZ DE ALBUQUERQUE JUNIOR - UEPB
Interna - 3216927 - FABIULA SEVILHA DE SOUZA
Interno - ***.394.804-** - FRANCISCO FIRMINO SALES NETO - UFCG