O mandonismo local e a legitimação de sua hegemonia pela igreja católica em Bernardo Élis

Abstract

What is proposed in this thesis is the interpretation of the regionalist literary work of Bernardo Élis underscoring the hogemony of the political system of the colonels as legitimated by the Roman Catholic Church. In order to achieve this objective a research bibliography of important authors was composed. The concept of hegemony and reflection on the religious question were investigated in Gramsci showing how the Catholic Church was an ideological instrument of the State. In Maria Isaura P. de Queiroz, Victor Nunes Leal, Francisco Itami Campos, Eul-Soo Pang, Nasr Fayad Chaul, and others views about the political system of the colonels were extracted. Initially, one proceeded in an analysis of the socio-economic and political context of the formation period of Bernardo Élis as an individual in exercize of this citizenship and a committed writer trying to delineate the characteristics of his regionalism, the space that this takes up in the literary milieu, and his dilemma between a religious formation and a Communist ideology. What was sought, in following, was a description of the political system of the colonels, Its structure, its function, and the system of its local manner of execution. What was also investigated in the prose works of Bernardo Élis was his vision of the power of the colonels and the clientcolonel relationships which evidence his denouncement of the orders, disorders, and injustices practicised by that land gentry. On the same it was examined how the author potrays religious manifestations while showing his respect for them. Finally, the hegemoniacal structure of the pocitical system of the colonels was discussed as legitimated by the Church which finds itself allied not only to tho local, but also to the national power structure