Gilda de Melo e Sousa | |
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Born | March 24, 1919 São Paulo, Brazil |
Died | 25 December 2005 São Paulo, Brazil | (aged 86)
Occupation | Philosophy professor, literary critic, essayist |
Alma mater | University of São Paulo |
Notable works | O tupi e o alaúde: uma interpretação de Macunaíma |
Gilda Rocha de Melo e Sousa (March 24, 1919 – December 25, 2005), also spelled Gilda Rocha de Mello e Souza, was a Brazilian philosopher, literary critic, essayist, and university professor.
She was born Gilda Moraes Rocha in São Paulo in 1919 and grew up in Araraquara, inland in São Paulo state. [1] [2] She returned to the city of São Paulo in 1930 to attend school. In 1937, she enrolled in the University of São Paulo (USP) graduating with a bachelor's in philosophy in 1940. [1] [2] She was one of the first women to attend the university. [1] While there, she studied under such notable professors as Roger Bastide, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Jean Maugüé . [1]
She then helped found the cultural magazine Clima, alongside her future husband Antonio Candido and other young intellectuals of the era. [1] [2] [3] In 1952, she received a doctorate in social sciences, with a thesis on 19th-century fashion, and in 1954 she became the founding director of the teaching of aesthetics at USP's Philosophy Department. [1] [3] She would go on to direct the department from 1969 to 1972, a period of significant repression of academics under the military dictatorship. [1] [3] In her time as an academic, she was particularly interested in studying the work of Mário de Andrade, with her publications including the central study O Tupi e o Alaúde on his Macunaíma. [1] [4]
After retiring in 1973, in 1999 she was named professor emerita in the USP's Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Humanities. [1]
She married the critic and sociologist Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza in 1943, and the couple had three children. [1] [2] Gilda de Melo e Souza died in 2005, at age 86, at São Paulo's Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital. [1] [2] In 2014, professor Walnice Nogueira Galvão published A palavra afiada, a collection of some of de Melo e Sousa's interviews, letters, and writings. [1] [4]
Gilda de Melo e Sousa | |
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Born | March 24, 1919 São Paulo, Brazil |
Died | 25 December 2005 São Paulo, Brazil | (aged 86)
Occupation | Philosophy professor, literary critic, essayist |
Alma mater | University of São Paulo |
Notable works | O tupi e o alaúde: uma interpretação de Macunaíma |
Gilda Rocha de Melo e Sousa (March 24, 1919 – December 25, 2005), also spelled Gilda Rocha de Mello e Souza, was a Brazilian philosopher, literary critic, essayist, and university professor.
She was born Gilda Moraes Rocha in São Paulo in 1919 and grew up in Araraquara, inland in São Paulo state. [1] [2] She returned to the city of São Paulo in 1930 to attend school. In 1937, she enrolled in the University of São Paulo (USP) graduating with a bachelor's in philosophy in 1940. [1] [2] She was one of the first women to attend the university. [1] While there, she studied under such notable professors as Roger Bastide, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Jean Maugüé . [1]
She then helped found the cultural magazine Clima, alongside her future husband Antonio Candido and other young intellectuals of the era. [1] [2] [3] In 1952, she received a doctorate in social sciences, with a thesis on 19th-century fashion, and in 1954 she became the founding director of the teaching of aesthetics at USP's Philosophy Department. [1] [3] She would go on to direct the department from 1969 to 1972, a period of significant repression of academics under the military dictatorship. [1] [3] In her time as an academic, she was particularly interested in studying the work of Mário de Andrade, with her publications including the central study O Tupi e o Alaúde on his Macunaíma. [1] [4]
After retiring in 1973, in 1999 she was named professor emerita in the USP's Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Humanities. [1]
She married the critic and sociologist Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza in 1943, and the couple had three children. [1] [2] Gilda de Melo e Souza died in 2005, at age 86, at São Paulo's Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital. [1] [2] In 2014, professor Walnice Nogueira Galvão published A palavra afiada, a collection of some of de Melo e Sousa's interviews, letters, and writings. [1] [4]