Uma Amazônia viva e humana: a visão modernista e antropofágica de Abguar Bastos entre manifestos e literatura

Abstract

With the present work, we seek to understand regionalist modernism from the Amazon perspective, based on two manifestos published by Abguar Bastos in the magazine Belém Nova, “À geração que surge” (1923) and ‘Flami-n-assu” (1927). As one of the main points of the latter is the intention to export Paraense artistic production, a poem entitled Poem, published in the Revista de Antropofagia, in São Paulo, and the book Terra de Icamiaba, which reveal the author's intentions, are added to the sources. in its context. To this end, based on Social History theorists and a specific methodology for the historical analysis of literature, essentially discursive analysis, the intellectual and literary environment of Belém in the 1920s and the formation of modernist intellectual groups with divergent proposals are rescued, like the Open-Air Academy and the Fish-Fried Academy. Inserted in this context, Abguar Bastos defends a way of producing and exporting art through a modernist, regionalist and anthropophagic bias, breaking the idea that in the Amazon essentially produced folk texts, revealing a human Amazon that had been deflowered physically, intellectually and artistically.