The imagetic constitution of an idyllic Belém: trans-historicity and movement of images on Port of Pará’s policies

ABSTRACT

Based on its trans-historical aspects and imagetic reverberations of an engraving of the city of Belém that illustrates policies of Port of Pará Company, this work analyzes a collective memory of the city based on its modernity spectra. The policies, historiographical documents, and transactional mercantile tools of that context represent the dynamic scenario on which the city structures functioned on the rubber cycle boom. The engravings not only offer interpretations of the city through a developmentalist and cosmopolitan perspective, but also constitute writings of a memorial urban nostalgia, of visionary melancholic and utopian projection. The engravings are based on the movement of images due to the rearrangement of buildings and urban morphology of Belém, which represents several historical moments of the city. From a Warburguian perspective, this work analyzes this imagetic operation that synthesizes the strong idyllic power of a certain experience of modernity in a peripheric capital.

KEYWORDS:
Policies; Port of Pará; Belém; Modernity; Trans-historic images