Bruno de Menezes, Dalcídio Jurandir e De Campos Ribeiro e as territorializações afro-amazônicas urbanas (da belle époque à década de trinta)

Abstract

The present paper makes a reading of the profane and sacred Afro-Amazonian territorializations in the city of Belém from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, and in the first decades of it, from the works Gostosa Belém de Outrora (1965), by José de Campos Ribeiro, Belém do Grão Pará (1960), by Dalcídio Jurandir, and Batuque (1939), by Bruno de Menezes, observing how the mentioned authors, through their experiences and research, got to create works that reinserted Afro-American minority groups in the narrative of the city. Amazonian communities that had been concealed by the narrative of the majority groups of the Amazon belle époque period, which took place during the gomiferous economic cycle, and these communities were hidden from the conformation narrative of the city. In this cycle there was an enunciative agency of Euro-indigenous essentiality, fed through an artistic production committed to the State apparatus. It is interesting for this paper what the referred works have of Minor Literature, working with the signs of Afro-Amazonian territorializations in the city of Belém, erasing the origin genealogies that generate racisms and hierarchies, which diminished the African descent participation in the Amazonian history. As tools for reading the studied works will be used Comparative Studies, as well as Cultural Studies, in a transdisciplinary perspective.