A América e a República n’O Guesa de Sousândrade

Abstract

This work aims to analyze some excerpts that make up O Guesa, the main work of Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, or Sousândrade, as he became popularly known. Taking this work as a basis, it focuses on two main elements: Americanism and republicanism, that is, based on some excerpts that constitute the thirteen cantos of the poem, the purpose is to analyze how these two conceptions are presented throughout the narrative. Considering that O Guesa, written between the 50s and 70s of the 19th century, was the result of the poet’s coexistence for about 30 years in different places and that during this period he experienced different cultures, most of these wanderings took place in the United States. , there, as an observer, he began to impregnate his impressions of that republican society. At this point, the work also dialogues with the contributions of the poet in that nation, precisely as a contributor to the printed O Novo Mundo, written in Portuguese in that young republic, and whose property was owned by the carioca José Carlos Rodrigues.