Canções e cores da nação brasileira: uma análise historiográfica das obras de Rodrigues de Carvalho (1903-1937)

Abstract

Entitled Canções e cores da nação brasileira: Uma análise historiográfica das obras de Rodrigues de Carvalho (1903-1937), this paper proposes to discuss in which way José Rodrigues de Carvalho (1867-1936) is inserted through the Brazilian nation formation process, taking as object of analysis the works Cancioneiro do Norte (1903) and e Aspectos da influência africana na formação social do Brasil (1937), both from the aforementioned author. In this sense, over the reflections on folklore and Northeastern regionalism will be addressed over the standpoint of Historical Culture, as the historical conceptions related to the ideas of "nation", "race", "miscegenation" and "Culture" integrate Carvalho's speech, also highlighting the daily practices observed by the author, specially, noticing how were produced the representations of the Portuguese, Indians and Africans developed by him. Nevertheless, despite this research has as a main aim the analysis of the works of Rodrigues de Carvalho, it is intended to present in this study the social place of the author, considering his intellectual and professional journey and political engagement of Paraiba; running through literary associations, academies and historical institutions at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, in order to comprehend how his bond was established in this space among other intellectuals.