Zé Ninguém : trajetória de um comunista no interior de São Paulo (1915/1985)

Abstract

This thesis which is the result of research conducted over the past four years seeks to understand the meaning of being a communist in a peripheral space of a Third World country, from what a particular agent lived and thought. We refer to the artist José Coimbra Sobrinho who born in rural zone, was migrant by imposition and communist militant for devotion. Poor man, which due circumstances became servitor in a public school and thus devoted himself to politics, painting canvases by oil paint and thinking the world, the world which he experienced not without some disenchantment. Thus, Experience, Resistance, Moral Economy are some basic concepts which together to the Microanalysis sustain our line of reasoning. Therefore, we intend to propose that the use of Communism by this protagonist and the peculiarities that result from it, offers us a reinterpretation of the same communist theory with the possibility of finding unorthodox modes of agency such as the art and even the very life of the militants.