O homem pobre do campo no imaginário e no pensamento social

Abstract

This work resumes the basic concepts of renowned essayists of the 1930 generation such as Gilberto Freyre, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Oliveira Vianna, Caio Prado Júnior, as well as some other works written during the institutionalization period of social sciences in Brazil, such as those by Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiroz. We also analised works written by Alberto Passos Guimarães e José de Souza Martins. The aim of this work is to show how each one of these authors see the needy rural man in our country, as well as how this man was conceived by brasilian imaginarium and literature, mainly portrayed by Jeca Tatu, a character created by Monteiro Lobato. To achieve this last intend we referred to Nísia Trindade, Aluízio Alves Filho e Cassiano Nunes. According to the above mentioned authors, our hypothesis is that divided into two opposite economic and sociocultural regions one urban, other rural Brasil has a rural ethos. Jeca Tatu, symbol of the national identity, suggests that our country contemplates itself as essentially rural and the agregado is its social substract.