Mariana Miggiolaro Chaguri

A atualidade do rural

This article shows that the reflection on the rural and the agrarian produced different definitions of democracy and rights. Differences that, at the limit, have supported differentiated insights into the modern and the modernization of the Brazilian society. The article also points out how new ideas have moved theoretical and empirical possibilities that allow us to affirm the existence of connections between the rural world and the question of rights in Brazil.

Sentidos da crise: literatura e processos sociais em Fogo morto e Cidade de Deus

This paper approaches the novels Fogo morto (1943) by Jose Lins do Rego and Cidade de Deus (1997): a novel by Paulo Lins to explore the hypothesis that the narratives deals with aspects of processes of social crisis and, by doing so, trigger violence as privileged mediation of relations between these individuals and the state. Accordingly, the conflicts over authority and power establish the connections between literary form and social process, enabling to analyze the boundaries to the effectiveness of social rights and, consequently, the statement of equality as a regulatory principle of the Brazilian republican life.