Maria Sylvia de Carvalho Franco

Bio: Maria Sylvia de Carvalho Franco is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 159 citations.

American Mirror: The United States And The Empire Of Brazil In The Age Of Emancipation

Abstract: This dissertation traces the triumph of free labor in the two largest slave societies of the nineteenth-century western world: the United States and Brazil. Drawing on a range of primary sources from American and Brazilian archives, it reconstructs the intense circulation of transnational agents between these two countries from the 1840s to the 1880s. It shows how these exchanges transformed the political economies of both nations: whereas Brazil attracted American capital and expertise to modernize its economic structure and accomplish a smooth transition from slave to free labor; the United States seized the opportunity to invest, develop, and encourage free labor in Brazil, which had long been under the influence of the British Empire. As vital as chattel slavery had become to the nineteenth-century world economy, a coalition of American and Brazilian reformers proposed that an even more efficient and profitable labor system could replace it. This transnational group of free labor promoters included activists, diplomats, engineers, entrepreneurs, journalists, merchants, missionaries, planters, politicians, scientists, students, among others. Working together, they promoted labor-saving machinery, new transportation technology, scientific management, and technical education. These improvements, they reckoned, would help Brazilian and American capitalists harness the potential of native-born as well as immigrant free workers to expand production and trade. This work concludes that, by the late nineteenth century, free labor had strengthened capitalism in Brazil and the United States, making American industrialists and Brazilian planters more powerful than ever before. Consequently, in neither the United States nor Brazil did the triumph of free labor result in the advancement of social justice. In fact, from the very beginning of their campaign, free labor promoters favored major capitalists: their goal was to concentrate capital, shatter traditional ways of life, and control highly mobile workers. Free labor meant eliminating slavery while, at the same time, reinforcing proletarianization. Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Graduate Group History First Advisor Steven Hahn

Universidade de são paulo faculdade de filosofia, letras e ciências humanas

Abstract: This thesis argue the national market integration, that happened in the first government of Vargas (1930-1945), with great factor to the construction of economic structure of industrial base, that allowed the Brazilian economic into a time of great development and economic growth. In this process, the focus is on the work of the population displacement. The national market integration claimed the construction of a new standard of population displacement in the country. Despite of the characteristics of the populations displacement was already in modification, the State mediate on this process, because of the creation of specific polices, trying to go deep and accelerate the market integration, including the work market. The relative politics to the population displacement, practiced and created during the first government of Vargas, shows the intention of this government to support and impulse the development of a new standard of urban industrial accumulation. Even If they didn’t achieve their objectives that were proposed, the politics related to the population displacement that started in the first government of Vargas, allowed the constitution of the bases that was going to be used, in spite of the characteristics relatively different, the significative economic development realized after the war. Key-Words: Economic Development; Vargas Government; Population Displacement; Intern Market; State Interventions; Political Migration; Colonization.

Linhagens do Pensamento Político Brasileiro

Abstract: The objectives are to investigate the characteristics of conservatism and liberalism in Brazil, verify whether the concepts of "organic idealism" and "constitutional idealism" are capable of describing and evaluating the principal "forms of thought" which have dominated Brazilian political and social thinking since the last quarter of the 19th century, and formulate a hypothesis on the way these currents of thought respond to the challenges raised by the country’s political development The analysis will focus less on the substantive content of ideologies and worldviews than on describing the underlying "forms of thought": intellectual structures and theoretical categories based on which reality is perceived, practical experience is elaborated, and political action is organized

The Challenges of Education in Brazil

Abstract: i Sumario ii The central issues 1 The origins 6 Missing links: the teaching and academic professions. 16 Recent policies 22 Future policies 25 Conclusion 28 References 30

Universidade de são paulo faculdade de filosofia, letras e ciências humanas departamento de teoria literária e literatura comparada

Abstract: The field of literature is the field of mimesis. So that it occurs, an object suitable for depiction, a subject that performs it and a language that makes it viable as well as a reader to receive it are imperative. The object to be re-created can be real or virtual and the means for its re-creation is the word. Words aimed at reaching beyond the threshold of real. Throughout the times several forms of representation were created varying, in different ways, the diverse narrative instances. This variation has been attached to the concept of subject and the language usage possibilities that gained momentum at certain periods of art and literature. Clarice Lispector fits in this stream of history and tradition. The conspicuous rational individual subject, the "author" that begins to be outlined in the transition to modernity had, generally speaking, a transparent language as a tool in order to reveal the landscape that unfolded before his eyes. These poles have become more complex through the centuries notwithstanding. The subject showed himself decentralized and fragmented, unknown to his own self. Who narrates? Words had become suspicious. Putting it in words is to annihilate the object? Would it be better to gag what cannot be said? The object showed its opacity and oddness. What would be fitting for depiction? These are the questions – highlighted in this work – that animate Clarice’s oeuvre, notably in her last novels: The stream of life [Água viva], The hour of the star [A hora da estrela] and A breath of life [Um sopro de vida]. The very format of contemporary novel goes parallel and feeds itself on these queries. The structurally classical novel – that envisaged rendering the subjective universe of the individual hero that is born with modernity – was shaken in its rock-steady foundations. A composing manner, which not only continuously intertwines character and narrator and author but also makes use of silence as a vanishing point for the narrative framework as a vortex that seems to drag the writing’s own movement, becomes more acute. The fictional pact alters itself, the silence and word play brings itself to light – central points in the novels analyzed that will be focused through the literature/psychoanalysis interface.