• Todo nordeste que couber a gente publica: o The New York Times e as representações do nordeste brasileiro na era da política da boa vizinhança (1933-1945)

    Author(s):
    João Gilberto N. Saraiva (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    Latin America and the Caribbean
    Subject(s):
    Latin America, International relations, United States, Brazil, World War (1939-1945), Mass media, History
    Item Type:
    Dissertation
    Institution:
    Programa de Pós-Graduação em História - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
    Tag(s):
    US-Latin American Relations, media, U.S.-Latin American relations, World War II, Media history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/2cbg-4e89
    Abstract:
    The Brazilian Northeast has been a constant subject for journalists of one of the world's leading media companies - The New York Times - between 1933 and 1945. This study investigates the multiple Northeast representations formulated in The New York Times' pages when the Americans were spotlight is on the region. It delineates similarities and differences between the NYT, the press and the governments of the United States and Brazil from the ways of conceiving this particular part of Brazil. Through the analysis of texts, photographs and maps, it is dedicated to establish connections between spaces, press and politics of the 1930s and 1940s. These decades there were relevant changes in the political landscape of both countries that permeated the news, reports and articles of NYT. Circumstances such as the 1935 armed uprisings - known as Communist Conspiracy - the installation and operation of the New State, and especially the Brazilian and US participation in World War II and the bilateral negotiations on the installation of US bases in Brazil were cardinal for the various Northeast images that circulated in the publication. Starting with Northeast of the drought, famine and death recurrent in Brazilian literature to the most dangerous point for hemispheric defense, passing through representations of the American West lawless nineteenth century and the Latin America marked by the dominance of exotic nature and stagnation, a space to be transformed by the US technical knowledge.
    Notes:
    O Nordeste brasileiro foi um tema constante para os jornalistas de um dos principais veículos de imprensa do mundo – o The New York Times – entre 1933 e 1945. Nesse recorte, o governo dos Estados Unidos implementou uma nova política externa para a América Latina – conhecida como Política de Boa Vizinhança.
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    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
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