Abstract
This article analyzes the importance and dissemination of the literary manifest Flami-n’-assú by Abguar Bastos (1902-1995) as part of the intellectual construction of an Amazonian perspectivism on Brazilian Modernism in the 1920s. To this end, we seek to analyze the literary groups formation in Pará in the first decades of the 20th century, their philosophical aspects, and their connections and distinctions related to other national artistic projects. From a regional point of view, ideas of modernity mediated by national identity are at the base of these ideas generation, taking into account the place of the discursive, indigenous ancestry and positioning of the Amazon in the debate from a rich literary experience. However, it was not a matter of thinking that the region was a stronghold of traditions, lost in the past and excluded from history. On the contrary, ideas of indigenous future, youth, avant-garde, knowledge, and art were part of the cognitive repertoire of “mental” and “spiritual” support of Flami-n’-assú manifest in the struggles with the past and construction of the present.
Keywords
Brazilian Modernism; Amazonian perspectivism; literary manifest; national identity; discursive place