Racism in the Chronicles of Doctor Moacyr Scliar

Abstract

The attention in this article falls on an expressive niche of Moacyr Scliar's literature -the chronicles. Expanding the proposal that the writer made use of his experiences to compose his works, it is highlighted that the media, and among them cinema, are the target of the writer's attention, they appear as a theme in his chronicles and appear in them as an intertext and intermidiatic reference. It is identified that his performance as a chronicler is marked by the logic of the press, with publications in newspapers and books. After mapping the phases attributed to his literature, there is a thematic association between medicine and cinema in his chronicles, in which cinema and film works appear as a compositional resource, as a motive or setting, to exemplify complex issues or to illustrate reflections in a concrete way about racism.