“Estamos criando algo a que podemos chamar de lusofonia horizontal”: o embate entre o sonho lusófono nas crônicas de Agualusa e o conservadorismo brasileiro contemporâneo em O Globo (2015-2018)

Abstract

In 2015, a new voice joined the ranks of columnists for the Brazilian newspaper O Globo, with the publication of weekly texts by Angolan writer and journalist José Eduardo Agualusa. Through the analysis of his chronicles published between 2015 and 2018, this work aims to understand the ways in which the writer has dealt with themes such as lusophony, miscegenation, and conservatism in his chronicles. Aimed at the Brazilian public, these texts were produced in a context of great political and social unrest in Brazil. From a perspective of the Social History of Culture, in which text, author and context are seen in interlocution, the research also explores the similarities and distances between the political and social perspectives of Agualusa and Grupo Globo regarding the situation experienced in the country in the second half of the 2010s. Considering this recent Brazilian context and the historicity of Agualusa himself, the work aims to analyze how the Angolan's Lusophone project, based on the horizontality of relations between Portuguese-speaking peoples and announced in his chronicles since his debut in O Globo, is affected by the national rise of cultural, political and social ultra-conservatism.