Historiografia da literatura maranhense: o que os manuais história concisa da literatura brasileira e a literatura brasileira origens: e unidade não contam

Abstract

This paper aims to show the importance of literature and authors from Maranhão for the construction of Brazilian literature, focusing on identifying the reasons underlying the presence and absence of certain authors from Maranhão in Brazilian literary historiography manuals. This research will emphasize historical and cultural factors that led some authors to be considered important to be present in Brazilian literary historiography manuals and ended up leaving other authors from Maranhão out, in addition to providing a brief historical overview of Brazilian literature and showing the path that Maranhão literature took so that authors from this region could become part of national literature. Knowing and recognizing Maranhão authors is essential for cultural understanding, in addition to rethinking the importance that other literary genres have for the history of literature. Studying Maranhão literature based on authors already consecrated by the canon and others who were left out, but who are important for the construction of the character of national literature, is necessary for the recovery of the cultural history of Maranhão literature. This research has as its object of analysis the manuals Concise History of Brazilian Literature (2006), by Alfredo Bosi and Brazilian Literature: Origins and Unity (1999) volume 1, by José Aderaldo Castelo and as its theoretical basis Candido (2006), Castillo (2017), Abreu (2006), among others under the perspective of Maranhão literary historiography, seeking to delimit itself in the concentration of the identification of the reasons underlying the presence and absence of certain Maranhão authors in these manuals that are references of Brazilian literary historiography. As a specific objective, this research seeks to identify significant authors and works of Maranhão literature that were not addressed or were underrepresented in literary historiography manuals, in addition to analyzing the reasons that led to the omission of Maranhão authors in the selected literary historiography manuals. The results of this research show that historical, social and cultural factors can influence the choices of authors that appear in literary historiography manuals, showing that authors from regions such as the Southeast have more privileges compared to authors from regions considered peripheral, such as Maranhão. Authors such as Gonçalves Dias gain more recognition, while authors such as Artur Azevedo end up being excluded from literary historiography manuals. The reasons for these omissions include a regional perspective and the perpetuation of the Brazilian literary canon that is established by traditional criteria