Crônica e crise no Brasil: a dimensão política da criação cronística

Abstract

The chronicles (crônicas) are placed in the spot between the fact and the creation. This kind of short narrative, popular in Brasil, is known for the relations with the fiction, quotidian and subjectivity. In front of the chronicle’s political nature, verified on the connection with the facts, this master research intends to face this textual gender through the notion of “crisis”. This work reflects about the relations between the crisis and the creations of chronicle in Brasil. This text proposes a genealogy of the political dimensions of Brazilians chronicles, through interpretations of political and micropolitical resistance in creations of Machado de Assis (2008), Lima Barreto (1914; 1915; 1920), Clarice Lispector (1992; 2018), Paulo Mendes Campos (2013), Gregório Duvivier (2021), Cidinha da Silva (2020), Maria Rita Kehl (2011; 2022), and others. The discussions are based in the studies of Michel Foucault (2014), Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari (2011) Giorgio Agamben (2018), Byung Chul-Han (2017), Suely Rolnik (2018), Ailton Krenak (2020) and Maria Rita Kehl (2019). The theorical relations with literary studies are based on works of João Cezar de Castro Rocha (2014), Diana Klinger (2007), Eduardo de Assis Duarte (2009), and others. In this work, the subjectivity, political and micropolitical aspects of the production of chronicles are connected by the efforts of bibliography research and literary critics. The text is based on a reflective writing about the relation between the chronicles and the crisis in Brasil, proposing the creation of chronicles as a way of political and micropolitical resistance.