The black diamond in Mário de Andrade \'s poetry

Author(s)

Angela Teodoro Grillo

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2015-11-06

Examining board members

Therezinha Apparecida Porto Ancona Lopez; Eduardo de Assis Duarte; Ligia Fonseca Ferreira; Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz; Jose Miguel Soares Wisnik

• Advisor: Therezinha Apparecida Porto Ancona Lopez

Abstract

This study aims to analyze and interpret Mário de Andrade\'s poetic creation linked to black issues in his time. It is grounded on the analysis and interpretation of three poems in which one can identify different representations in the key of Losango Negro, eg the black as one of the elements that make up the vest of the arlequinal poet. The poems: \"Reconhecimento de Nêmesis from 1926 and published in 1941, which keeps the issues of lyrical subject-related to the mestizo artist content, at the individual field; \"Poemas da Negra\", 1928, representing the time in which the lyrical subject enters into communion with the black muse and raises it to an ethereal plane, equaling the poetic self and the woman; and \"Nova Canção de Dixie\", written in 1944 and published posthumously, which expresses the deep nuisance of the poet with the violent racist practice in the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. In addition to these three texts included in the corpus, the plots on the topic are considered in the analysis, which were found at the writer\'s both published and unpublished work, including manuscripts in his marginalia and dies of his creation, associated or not with marginal notes. This research considers that at the poetic multiplicity of Mário de Andrade, there is a black poetic self and a lyrical subject who are supportive/empathic with the black they represent, transpassing the denouncement of color prejudice and discussions regarding the poet\'s black content, to also achieve references to black in the sphere of art, love as happiness, beauty and completeness. According to Adorno\'s thought, this paper analyzes at a single universe, in the particular construction of a language, the expression of a poetic voice that often maintains a relationship with the collective subject. The study draws on concepts in the areas of Literary Theory, Genetic Criticism, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, as well as studies on the black in the fields of history, sociology and anthropology. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/13211-4 - Black lozenge: the black people in the poetic creation of Mário de Andrade
• Grantee: Angela Teodoro Grillo
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate