Futurosos e futuristas: uma história pelo avesso da arte moderna no Pará

Abstract

This work of literary history focuses on the cultural and literary ambience of the city of Belém, capital of the state of Pará, during the 1920s. Historical and chronological extrapolations that overcoming this decade, both before or after, were necessary to emphasize some positions esthetic and affirmations made according to the Modernism Canon instituted. Starting from a narratological approach (SCHMID, 2010; DOLEZEL, 2010), assisted by notions of the Aesthetic of Reception (JAUSS, 1994, 2010); some theoretical tools and critical reflections were transmigrated from these branches of research to employ them in the composition of a historiographic narrative based on the “literary archives” configured in the journalistic media. In this narratological scope were made some critical assumptions in the evaluation of some literary works published in this period, as well as the contestation of the canonized history about the supposed Modernism of Pará. In these terms we present a different perspective on the events that moved the cultural ambience of Pará during the first decades of the twentieth century. The subjects explored here bear the poetic and narrative tradition created by authors from Pará or settled in the State; presents the culture of civic celebrations and the associative commitment of the intellectuals; (Dadaism, Cubism, Futurism…); which were openly criticized by the great majority of intellectuals (journalists, poets, story teller…) “News” or “Elders”. If the most known historiographical works about the 1920s affirm the “triumph of the modernist idea” in Brazil (GOUVEIA, 2013), this research will demonstrate a narrative in which the appreciation of the poetic tradition, telluric writings and historical patriotism were the concepts fundamental that unified artist and “local” intellectuals and not the propounded history of an “adhesion” to Paulista Modernism.