Subordinação e conquistas na intelectualidade pernambucana

a relação de Mauro Mota e Gilberto Freyre

Abstract

Despite apparent friendliness, an intellectual field is built on power struggles and symbolic battles. In this article, we analyze the relationships built between two intellectuals who had great prominence in the humanities and social sciences in Pernambuco in the 20th century: the journalist Mauro Mota and the sociologist Gilberto Freyre. Through letters, newspaper articles, and books published between the 1950s and 1970s, we analyze how Freyre exerted his influence through threats, coercion, and numerous requests to further amplify his name in the media and in discussions surrounding supposed literary movements, such as Regionalism. In this work, we analyze this relationship through the press, letters, and notes, primarily in the newspaper Diario de Pernambuco, but also through the administration of scientific institutions, such as the Instituto Joaquim Nabuco de Pesquisas Sociais (IJNPS), institutions linked to Mauro and which, in this context, had to accept the dictates of the author of Casa Grande & Senzala. To this end, we use as a theoretical framework discussions on identity guided by theorists such as Judith Butler and Vladimir Safatle in the construction of the subjugated intellectual in Mauro Mota.