Safra, retratos da vida e do homem amazônico na produção da castanha

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the social aspects of the novel Safra (1937) wrote by Abguar Bastos on the economy of Brazilian nut in Amazonia in the beginning of 20th Century. This moment was very important to the region, once the seed was one of the few alternatives to producers after the bust of the rubber economy. The situation of the people from the Coari village reveals a work characterized by denunciation and reflections on human being, on power and its consequences. This novel presents three related aspects. The first is the historical context when both products, rubber and Brazilian nuts, were the main sources of income to the population and how the substitution from one to another happened. The second presents the novel as a regionalist of the 2nd modernist generation in Brazil; for this reason the writer career is presented in order to observe his trajectory, the ideas of the movement as well as the political position presented in his work. The third part is the study of the novel wherein is seen the way how the people was portrayed in the book, the characteristics of protagonist and what the speeches are hidden in the narrative.