“A summary from Brazil”: difference and historicity in rural construction in ParanáABSTRACT
This article discusses rural discourses in the state of Paraná in the mid - 20th century. It analyses the main performative axes of discourses about the people and the land of this state elaborated in articles, essays and speeches of Bento Munhoz da Rocha, between 1951 and 1955, when he ruled the state, as well as in the work “Two reporters in Paraná”, which was published under the auspices of his government in 1953. It aims to problematize the subjectivities organized by these discourses, which have created and (dis)qualified characters, articulating them to external constraints - environment, climate, cultural inheritance, psychology - in order to limit the action of these subjects and enabled them (or not) to participate in the construction of the notions of property and ownership in that state. Such narrative axes will be understood as discursive events that are articulated within historicized narratives, that is, narratives that compose regimes of historicities. The main objective is to know how the projects of (re)occupation of large areas of the territory of Paraná were linked to a project of national future and the construction of a different Brazil.
Keywords: rural history; historicity; identifications; regions