Araguaia em verso e prosa: os poemas da guerrilha veiculados pelo Resistência (o jornal em defesa dos direitos humanos)

Abstract

The Araguaia guerrilla, a revolutionary movement that took place in northern Brazil during the first half of the 1970s, gained prominence in the pages of the Resistência newspaper, both in verse and in prose. In February 1979, the alternative monthly publication in Belém do Pará published, exclusively, eight poems transcribed from the Primeiras Cantigas do Araguaia leaflet, signed by Libério de Campos. In order to identify how such texts fit into the poetics of resistance, support was sought in Alfredo Bosi's approaches to resistance as a theme and as a process. As these are productions inserted in a context of political militancy, a phenomenological approach was adopted. Two other checks, carried out through observational and comparative procedures, deserve to be highlighted in the text, they are: the role played by the Resistência newspaper regarding human rights; and the similarity between the existence of the guerrilla and that of the homo sacer in the sense of “naked life”, that is, one who becomes illegal and is obliged to live in an area of indifference under the condition of a killer, legally unprotected and with the body exposed to extreme violence, comparison made based on the fundamentals of Giorgio Agamben. This work presents three surveys that relate Literature, Press and History, the latter two being important supports for the development of the study carried out on the “poems of the Araguaia guerrilla”.