A brasilidade... nordestina em Catimbó, de Ascenso Ferreira e no livro de Poemas, de Jorge Fernandes

Abstract

The present study analyzes the theme: From Brazilianism under the tradition of rupture (Octávio Paz) in the Modernism of the 1920s and as translated in the book of poems Catimbó, by Ascenso Ferreira (1927) considered by Mário de Andrade (1928) More original to the Brazilian modernism of that decade. This work is set in the 20's of the last century, when the conceptual guidelines of modernism and regionalism find a propitious ground for the creation of modern Brazilian poetry in a conjunction of elements in which the various components of the national culture are present, giving Highlight those who represent the universe of Brazilian tradition, nationalism and popular culture. In this sense, the literary production of Ascenso Ferreira finds in popular culture, orality and tradition the traits that compose this poetry, being limited to music, whose sonority refers to the touches of the Afro-Brazilian origin maracatus syncretized to the Amerindian and Christian elements. Themes that refer to the expressions of local culture, but also to the universalism of human feelings and pain interspersed by the voices of the community. For Azevedo (1984), the poet Ascenso Ferreira created the "Brazilian ... Northeastern". Thus, the study has as theoretical contribution the work developed by Cândido (1995), Azevedo (1984), Araújo (1995), Andrade (1979), Perrone-Moisés (2007) and Ferreira (2008), whose analyzes serve to Understanding of the emblematic decade of the 20th, a foundation of the changes that have taken place in the Brazilian cultural scene in the following decades. An intersection between the poetry of Pernambuco with Clã do Jabuti (1927) by Mário de Andrade and Jorge Fernandes Book of Poems (1927), both launched in the same year and focused on the question of Brazilidade.