José and the city: a geographical incursion into the political poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Abstract

This article is part of studies that relate geography and literature and aims to analyze the work “José” (1942), by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, which is part of the author’s most politicized phase (the first half of the 1940s), which also includes the books Sentimento do mundo (1940) and A rosa do povo (1945). For this, we carry out a critical reading of the poems, with a geographical focus, articulating the issue of politics to urban living in modernity. From the theoretical and methodological point of view, we seek to establish a genuine dialogue between verses and geographical thought, in which there is no hierarchy between the two knowledges and the discourse of the poet and the geographer are intermingled. For this reason, we also produce cartographic material in dialogue with literary content.

Keywords:
Drummond; José; Modernity; City; Geography and literature