A Literary Festival & a Cultural Silo Paraty 1975-2015

This dissertation was carried out in the History Postgraduate Programme at the Fluminense Federal University, with the support of the National Research Council, through the master's scholarship awarded to the first place in Contemporary History II in the 2017 selection process. It narrates a relationship between culture and society that has been historically constructed in the city of Paraty. The relationship between the Paraty International Literary Festival and the José Kleber Cultural Silo Institute. What I'm trying to develop in my research is an analysis of the formation of the caiçara identity in Paraty. This identity is constructed as cultural resistance to the movement of expropriation and transformation of the common territorial space. My historical research brings new insights to the analysis of the circulation of knowledge agents involved in the process, providing unpublished audiovisual documents. These documents were collected over the course of a ten-year partnership as a documentary filmmaker with the José Kleber Cultural Silo Institute in Paraty.