A tradição do regionalismo na literatura brasileira: do pitoresco à realização inventiva

Abstract

Analysis of the concept of regionalism based in Antonio
Candido, having as starting point the reading of the book
Formação da literatura brasileira, in which the author
apprehends the sprouting of the regionalistic tradition as one
of the trends of the romantic movement and as an instrument
of discovery of the new country. The regionalistic perspective is presented in its various stages of the history of the Brazilian
literary system, in a non-homogeneous form and always
reacting of a problematic way to the national unifying processes.
In the debate about the permanence of the regionalism in
Brazilian literature, it is distinguished the reading of the work
of Guimarães Rosa as a way of transcendence of the regional
“thanks to the incorporation in the universal values of the
humanity and to the creative tension”. This analysis considers,
at last, the establishment of a relationship between the
“genealogical trend” that invented the indianism and the
programmatical attempts to give visibility to the regionalism
in Brazil.