RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 O Brasil no mundo rural doente: <em>A construção do agricultor na literatura em dois momentos da história brasileira (1914 e 1970)</em>
JF Luso-Brazilian Review
JO Luso-Braz Rev
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 45
OP 60
DO 10.1353/lbr.2007.0028
VO 44
IS 1
A1 Jó Klanovicz
YR 2007
UL http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/44/1/45.abstract
AB This article focuses on thematic and textual coincidences between the fiction of Monteiro Lobato (Jeca Tatu, 1914) and educational materials prepared by the Secretaria da Agricultura do Rio Grande do Sul (Cartilha do agricultor, 1970) in the construction of the character of the rural worker. Such parallels point to a persistent representation, on the part of the Brazilian elite, of rural areas as backward and “ill.” In order to provide a context for this discussion, I sketch the Western discourse on the body and illness and recapitulate influential Brazilian arguments concerning the backwardness of the countryside.