Reconfiguração da identidade negra na poesia modernista: as vozes de Bruno de Menezes e Lino Guedes

Abstract

This work has the aim of analyse the afrodescendant’s image in Bruno de Menezes and Lino Pinto Guedes’ poetry, noticing how the process of identity affirmation is showed, observing if in its representation process both poets practicing a coherent discourse with the inconformism established in modernist period. The specific aims propose to discuss the concept of afro-Brazilian Literature that is under construction, proposing how elements distinguish and certify the specificities related to the afro-Brazilians, different from the whole “official” literature. Comprehend that Brazilian Modernism was not an homogeneous movement, as well as that it cannot be reduced to the movement of São Paulo, as that the productions from consecrated authors in paulista context. The corpus work is built by Batuque (1993), de Bruno Menezes, masterpiece that has announced the afro-Brazilian literary production in Pará, and the only book by this writer to approach the afro thematic, Urucungo (1936) e Dictinha (1938), by Lino Guedes. To reach those aims, we opted to approach the researches on social, historical and cultural contextualization, based on the theories by Bhabha (1998), Hall (2002), Fanon (2010), Glissant (2005), that discuss identity questions. In which concern to the studies by Brazilian Modernism, we use theory by Kothe (2004), Veloso (2010), Fabris (1994). And to comprehend the recent discussion on afro-Brazilian literature, we based our research on concepts by Duarte (2008; 2009; 2010), Cuti (2010), Ianni (1988) e Bezerra (2009; 2010).