Masculinities And Virilities in the Discursive Production of Abdias Neves

Abstract

This work analyzes the discourse of piauiense intelectual Abdias Neves, who, in the first decades of the twentieth century, oriented his writing towards a defining action of modern masculinities. The main argument is organized around the idea that this discursive production sought to reflect on the forged masculine practices in Piauí historical course and to offer cultural parameters that favor, on the one hand, the break with the past, founded on orality traditions, and, onthe other hand, the emergence of new male practices based on a close relationship with physical culture and school, factors that should redefine local masculinities, enabling them to fit into patterns of modern virility and this collaborating for the effective insertion of Piauiense in the construction of the modern Brazilian nationlity.