The Real and Promised Bras lia
An Asymmetrical Symbol in 1960s Brazilian Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9862072 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sylvain Béal (0000-0003-3023-7466, corresponding author), Sophia Beal |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-10 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/hpn.2010.a376302 |
| OpenAlex | W4379532291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
To write about Brasília in the 1960s was to write about a dual city, part symbol and part reality. This dual city grew out of an impulse to oversimplify representations of the real city in order to preserve its mythic promise of national progress. The oversimplifications derived from a national desire to showcase how Brazil had found an authentic path toward its own progress, as opposed to copying preexisting models in other nations. Three texts from the 1960s challenge efforts to preserve the ideal vision of the new capital at any cost and alternatively expose the city's asymmetries and complexities, which were often glossed over in discourses that idealized the construction of Brasília as the definitive symbol of national progress. These texts are Clarice Lispector's crônica "Brasília: cinco dias" (1964), José Marques da Silva's Diário de um candango (1963), and José Geraldo Vieira's novel Paralelo 16: Brasília (1966)
Aesthetics · Art · Copying · Dual (grammatical number) · Humanities · Ideal (ethics) · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Sociology · Symbol (formal) · History · Law · Literature, Culture, and Criticism · Philosophy · Urban Development and Societal Issues
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |