Masculinidades: um jogo de aproximações e afastamentos, o caso do jornal estudantil O Bonde

Abstract

The research consists in investigating how masculinities of students were configured in the pages of the student newspaper O Bonde, it was written and reproduced in Escola Superior de Agricultura (ESA) and Universidade Rural do Estado de Minas Gerais (UREMG) between 1945 and 1963. It is a research of changing nature, I mean, I was leaving towards the investigative paths that the study offered without a sealed direction, thus, a methodological strategy was one of the others. It occurred, thus, a bibliographic investigation of primary and secondary sources and a documental research with analyses of content and in the way two interviews were accomplished. The objective from this investigation was to catch and to put in doubt the “bonde” discourses about the masculinities built in that time, and these catchings were done in almost time totallity of the newspaper, with cuttings from 1945 until 1962, since the newspaper stopped its activities in 1963. The perceived masculinity in the newspaper corroborates with the hegemonic discourses about the dominant masculinity, in the local level (school) but that also reflects the Brazilian society of that age. In the relation between the students it was possible to capture other masculine subjectivities as: agricultural, bohemian, sports and delicate. These made up the scenario of differentiation that some of these masculinities sought to assert as a student identity. The questions of the research occurred mainly from “foucautianos” studies, besides the dialogues with others theorists from the areas of genre, In the relation between the students it was possible to capture other masculine subjectivities as: agricultural, bohemian, sports and delicate. These made up the scenario of differentiation that some of these masculinities sought to assert as a student identity, history, daily, sociology, memories, narratives among othes; The newspaper “O Bonde” was a masculine invention of students from ESAV in decade of XX, and the institution has concreted as a local of masculine study in the upstate of Minas Gerais - Brazil, with its rules and teachings of rationality and morality, originating aspects of a “esaviano” spirit. Quotations that the school inherited from the American model (Lant grant colleges) under which it was founded. The masculine newspaper was invented under a hard daily of study and researches, a “safety valve” of the boys that have been spreading their jokings, vigilances and “the foras alheios” in this midiatic pedagogical dispositive. It is narrate a daily full of resistances, transgressions, tactics, strategies, ironies and multiple performances. Therefore, the newspaper was motioned under the conflicts, acceptances and reconfigurations of its discoursive practice. It has been circulating for eighteen year, the newspaper brought the “esaviano” daily imbricated by the privacies, sporting practices, relationships and claims. The whole discoursive gamut was published in permanent sections as sports, social and separated sections: “Garoto Viçoso e Caneladas” besides the sections of gossips: “Venenos e Veneninhos; Fatos e Boatos; Crônicas da Semana; Ronda Esaviana; Coisas que incomodam na ESAV”. The newspaper “O Bonde” is a wealthy material in discourses and imagens about how boys that institution put in practice the discoursive construction of a patriotic, heroic masculinity involved in a group of friendship living in a setting of communit.