Cartas literárias: cartografia sócio-literária de pessoas e paisagens de Belém a partir da poesia de Bruno de Menezes

Abstract

This study proposes a new perspective on the intersection of Geography and Literature: a socio literary cartography of the poetry of Bruno de Menezes, taking into account the presence of people and landscapes in the space of Belém do Pará. The guiding question of this work was to demonstrate that Bruno de Menezes was a poet-cartographer, elucidating the relationship between fiction and cartography; investigating how spaces influenced the stylistics of his poetry; and establishing a comparison between the mentioned spaces as they are today and how they were at the time of his writings. In this sense, it contributes to the academic community by advancing studies on this black, peripheral, self-taught poet, who was a precursor of Modernism in the capital of Pará, in addition to continuing research on Literary Cartography, which, as we have shown, is still in a phase of deepening. As methodology, we utilized the main theories of literary cartography, synthesizing them into a table based on the Malha de Saberes created by Fernandes et al. (2021), presenting maps according to the theories of Moretti (2003) for spatial analysis, and classifying spatiality in the poems using the postulates of Ozíris (2007). The outcome of this research was a correlation between visual and textual elements, featuring maps and tables that synthesize the author's ability to portray the city in poetry. The reader will observe that the most recurring spaces in the poems were the neighborhoods of Jurunas, Cidade Velha, Campina, Umarizal, Telégrafo, Pedreira, and Sacramenta (Nazaré and Guamá appear a few times), with individuals who existed in the periphery of Belém during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, yet whose existence was not recorded in official documents. This is the beginning of what we hope will be a return to society through the provision of maps and other technological resources for the public. Thus, this work aimed to show that the spaces of Belém have memory, narrating a portion of the history of the occupation of these places.