Vol. 24 No. 2 (2022): THE OBSCURED, NEGLECTED OR IGNORED IN MODERN BRAZILIAN LITERATURE
As the Brazilian modernization process is invariably controversial and diffuse, given that the idea of modernity is necessarily ambiguous, in the absence of greater historical precision, the “Semana da arte moderna” is chosen as a landmark, whose centenary requires revision, as has already been widely done. Without disregarding the relevance that the landmark acquired for our historiography, it is important to highlight other voices before or after the event held at Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, to rethink in a broad spectrum the consolidation of authors and works relegated to the background and that, even considered at a certain point, they ended up being passed over as bearers of illegitimate discourses. The dossier proposed here, in line with the historical materiality of the works, included expressions that, due to their authorial peculiarities, the currents of reading at the time of their publication, the repercussion of authorial figures, or even for indefinable reasons, do not resonate today as manifestations valued, as if their repercussions were undue or simply should not be recorded as literary records. They are the deprecated, forgotten or obscured in Brazilian literature, which, although they do not appear today as unavoidable references, call for a reexamination, which implies rethinking which parameters should guide the reading of modern works and dimensioning in perspective the positions that animated the reception of our literature itself, as if its repercussions were undue or simply should not be registered as a literary record.
