Brasília: dystopian configurations in the past, in fiction and in the present

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https://doi.org/10.34019/2236-8191.2020.v5.32647

Abstract

The present article seeks to analyze the city of Brasília and its relationship with its surroundings, mainly with the administrative region of Ceilândia, in order to tension concepts of science fiction, understood as a genre that creates not beyond, but from reality, and in which it is possible to find utopias and dystopias. Thus, Brasilia is analyzed in three axes: in the past, during the construction as a utopian symbol of Brazil; as a hypothetical world in the film Branco Sai, Preto Fica (2014), by Adirley Queirós and in the present, during the pandemic of COVID-19. The utopian construction of Brasília gives space to a city with characteristics of dystopia, evidenced by the government's actions during the construction. This is the Brasilia that was adapted for the cinema as a segregationist dystopia. And, finally, the pandemic makes violence and separation explicit in the capital of Brazil.

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2021-04-15