Discurso e as cidades: um estudo sobre Cataguases-MG baseado na produção literária modernista da revista verde

Abstract

The adoption of cities as a research subject in management has become increasingly common, particularly in organizational studies. It is to this field that our paper belongs. Here we aim to understand the dialectical relations between the literary discourse on cities and the issues of material nature that exist in them. Specifically, we analyze those relations in the contents of Revista Verde, an important modernistic publication of the 1920s produced in Cataguases-MG. The theoretical and methodological background has as its perspectives the Marxist conception of discourse, the dialectical relationship between base and superstructure, and the ideological character of Brazilian modernism. The findings show that the totally contradictory material relations have been conveniently ignored. As such, the situation has allowed the poets in Revista Verde to assign the incomprehension of their texts to a lack of interest by the population ignoring that this detachment has begun in the detachment of the existing social conditions themselves, especially the extenuating work conditions at local factories.