SOCIABILITY IN CORRESPONDENCE

WRITING AS EPISTOLARY SOCIABILITY SPACE - THE RAIMUNDO NONATO’S COLLECTION

Abstract

This article aims to investigate part of the epistolary records sent to the intellectual Raimundo Nonato, between the years 1972-1981, understanding this exchange of correspondence as a social and cultural practice member of sociability networks, which employed the written culture to produce and disseminate representations of itself and other, concerning the route, the path of life of so-called men of letters of western region of Rio Grande do Norte, wrapped in this epistolary pact. One aim, therefore, to investigate and understand how the correspondence habits were articulated to a broad universe of cultural practices of subjects immersed in these relations. Therefore, throughout this article, will be tried to map the materiality of writing, the places and ways of these epistolary records and the possibility of readings to be held around the same in order to attend to the discourses, practices and representations Common to these correspondences. In carrying out a study of the construction of meaning to the iteracy wrapped in this epistolary pact is meant to contribute to the historiographical debate that has sought to question the sociability networks among intellectuals.