Literary Journalism and Urban Ethnography:: João do Rio's Perspectives on the City of Rio de Janeiro
Based on the role of literature and journalism, understood as knowledge about the social and the urban, this article is an “interpretative exercise” for understanding and apprehending the city of Rio de Janeiro, relating daily life to the metaphor of the urban, from a literary journalism approach to...
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Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://latrama.unr.edu.ar/index.php/trama/article/view/889 |
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| Sumario: | Based on the role of literature and journalism, understood as knowledge about the social and the urban, this article is an “interpretative exercise” for understanding and apprehending the city of Rio de Janeiro, relating daily life to the metaphor of the urban, from a literary journalism approach to A Alma Encantadora das Ruas (2017), a book by João do Rio, the pseudonym by which Paulo Barreto was known. According to Martinez (2022), in Brazil, daily life is present in the author’s works. This daily life, according to Magnani (2009), finds its specificity in the ethnographic method, which can be developed in various fields, as demonstrated by this study. From the intersection of Literary Journalism and Urban Ethnography, it is possible to state that João do Rio’s literature is notconceived merely as a reflection of the world in which we are immersed. The author describes, as an interpretative exercise, worldviews around which certain social groups were formed, “from a continuously lived and portrayed intersubjectivity” (Sant’Anna & de Souza, 2014, p. 110). |
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