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- This article aims at analyzing in what manner John Dos Passos portrayed migration in Brazil on the Move. Our text starts by showing the writer’s interest in Brazil’s development ever since the Portuguese settled the country. We then look closer at how Dos Passos reported on internal migrations that were being stimulated to settle Brazil’s interior during the late nineteen forties. The article also analyzes how the construction of Brasília is interrelated to the migration problem. Furthermore, Dos Passos wrote on the favelas (slums), suggesting that people had to move out of the big cities and get themselves some virgin land to work on. He believed that agriculture could free the Brazilian people from poverty.
- Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar de que forma John Dos Passos retratou a migração em Brazil on the Move. Começamos por descrever o interesse que o escritor teve pelo desenvolvimento do Brasil desde a sua colonização pelos portugueses. Em seguida, evidenciamos como Dos Passos relatou as migrações internas que estavam sendo estimuladas para povoar o interior do Brasil durante o final dos anos quarenta. O artigo também analisa como a construção de Brasília esteve inter-relacionada com o problema da migração. Além do mais Dos Passos escreveu sobre as favelas, sugerindo que as pessoas tinham que sair das grandes cidades para encontrarem trabalho no campo. Ele acreditava que a agricultura poderia libertar o povo brasileiro da pobreza.
Citation
Oliveira, Miguel,
"John Dos Passos on the Brazilian Migration:
Analyzing Brazil on the Move
"
(2024).
Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-North American Letters and Studies.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/5fsy-vw74
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