Abstract

BARCHI, Felipe Yera  and  CUNHA, Fabiana Lopes da. The letters and the nation: Olavo Bilac and his chronicles about education (1900-1906). Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.20, e008.  Epub Jan 29, 2022. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v20-2021-8.

The chronicles of Olavo Bilac, although clouded by his poetry, are important documents for the analysis of political, social, and educational debates in the First Brazilian Republic. Bilac seized a prestigious spot in the Brazilian newspapers of the Belle Époque, and while playing this role, he promoted a modernizing agenda in which the massive literacy of the population was a primordial task. Literacy was what could lead Brazil to modern civilization.

Keywords : Olavo Bilac; Education; Illiteracy; Chronicles.

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