The article analyzes the relations between humanistic and cultural subjects in the context of the current Brazilian crisis, which deepened the weakness of public institutions of higher education in Brazil. It also reflects on the impact of the transformation of the modern cultural canon in this area of knowledge, to which the weakening of the institutional sphere is added. In this perspective, it draws attentio...
This article analyzes the creation of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture in 1985 by means of the identification of its main actor’s interests and strategies and of the positioning of the political parties on the debate about the need for a specific ministry for Culture separated from the Ministry of Education. By locating this process in the political context of the mid-1980s through the analysis of journalistic...
The interpretations of modernism in Brazil have tended to concentrate on the avant-gardes that emerged in the first two decades of the 20th century in Brazil's two most important cities: Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. This article examines the spread of literary modernism from the 1930s onwards into three regions on the periphery of the country's innovative impulse, but which nonetheless possessed well-establish...