Open AccessA crise da nação na narrativa jornalística Problema Vital de Monteiro Lobato
Author(s) -
Simão Farias Almeida
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
verso e reverso
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1806-6925
pISSN - 0103-1414
DOI - 10.4013/ver.2013.27.65.08
Subject(s) - journalism , narrative , mediation , sociology , key (lock) , political science , law , media studies , literature , art , computer science , computer security
In the first half of the twentieth century, modern journalism mediated collective factual directions necessary for the construction of the nation’s projects. Taking the historical assumptions by Géraldine Muhlmann (2008) regarding unifying, decentralizing journalism as a starting point, this article discusses how Monteiro Lobato journalistically represented issues involving a national project in his narrative Problema Vital (1918). We conclude that the literary journalist condemned the Brazilian national crisisby omitting information on data concerning foreign countries and interpreting the scenario in the hinterland of the country with its lack of public sanitation