Parque industrial de Patrícia Galvão: geografias de um romance proletário

Abstract

Linked to human experience, literature allows geography to unveil its diverse expressions of individuals and places. Since 1970, with the consolidation of Humanist Geography, new readings of the world began to be made. From this, with the union between geography and literature, it was possible to see the originality and personality of the lived space from a literary geography. Relating these two areas of knowledge, we proposed to outline a literary geography of industries, based on the novel Parque Industrial, in which industry is discussed as a phenomenon to encompass the experiential aspects of the female worker's daily life, relating the life and work of Patrícia Galvão, presenting a specific Brazilian historiographical reality. European novels written in the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century were the first to bring the industrial phenomenon and proletarian experiences to the heart of the narrative, implying the possibility of dealing with themes already explored by geography, such as industrialization, but, this time emphasizing the experiential aspect. In the Brazilian literary scene, writers such as Amando Fontes, Jorge Amado, Ranulfo Prata, Dalcídio Jurandir, Roniwalter Jatobá, among others, who published their works in the 20th and 21st centuries, also featured the working-class condition in their plots. In this context, the novel Parque Industrial, published in 1933 by Patrícia Galvão, portrays the life of factory workers in the Brás neighborhood, in São Paulo. By electing women as protagonists of the narrative, the writer evokes elements, until then, little explored: the condition of working women. Based on the themes of working, living and fighting, it is possible to understand the multiple female experiences experienced during the industrialization phenomenon. Patrícia Galvão's geographicities and spatialities intersect with those of her characters. Parque Industrial, in this context, makes it possible to think of a literary geography of industries, in which we read the existing subjectivities in the industrial phenomenon experienced by those who were seen as supporting actors both in the factories and in literary writings: the female workers.