Abstract
Traces of the sport's presence can be found in Brazilian cities since the second half of the 19th century and many of its stories have already been narrated from various sources. In this research, we take the Brazilian urban novel of the 1920s and 1930s as a source, given that in this period literature opened space for themes present in urban daily life, among them, sport. Our objective, then, was to map and analyze, in 17 Brazilian urban novels published in the 1920s and 1930s, practices and representations of modern sport as a constitutive part of the narrative plot. In our analysis, sport was recurrent in 15 of the 17 novels and witnessed the multiplicity of meanings in the sporting phenomenon and proved our hypothesis that sport, in its infancy or exuberance, could have its traits captured in the novel of the period.
Keywords:
Sport; Brazilian novel; Sports History.
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