Intellectuals of Amazonian letters

"immortals", "madrugadenses" and "experts"

Abstract

This article studies the generational features of Amazonian literary criticism, grouping them into three large groups, namely: the immortals of the Academia Amazonense de Letras, the madrugadenses, writer-critics from Clube da Madrugada, and the specialists, critics who they have acted since the 1970s and, later, those who work from the university, starting in the 1980s. The main objective is to review the proposed division of Amazonian literary criticism proposed by Souza (2020) and Souza and Gabriel (2020), reassessing the place of criticism in the first half of the 20th century, that is, that composed especially by scholars of the Silogeu, and how these critical generations dialogue with each other from time to time. We adopted a bibliographic approach, considering Amazonian literary criticism as a literary space and a structuring and structured process in Amazonian literary production, following the lessons of Erll (2005; 2012), Nora (1993) and Bordieu (1996). For the proposal of dividing Amazonian literary criticism into generations, we used the studies of Pedro Lyra (1995) and Rachel Esteves de Lima (1998). We start from the hypothesis that Amazonian literary criticism can be divided into generations in a similar way to the division of Brazilian poetry in the 20th century.