ENTRE ESCRITAS E CRÍTICAS: INTELECTUALIDADE E HISTÓRIA DA LITERATURA NA OBRA DE O. G. REGO DE CARVALHO

Abstract

The study comprises the (re)construction of the history of Piauí literature, based on the intellectual work of Orlando Geraldo de Carvalho (1930-2013), problematizing issues of borders and identities of “being Piauí”. It debates the interrelations between the local, the regional and the national as demarcators of literary canons and which generated rifts with other intellectuals, especially at the local level. Methodologically, the study carried out an analytical-interpretive reading of the documents, composed of the book Como e por que me faz Escritor (1994), his novels, as well as anthologies and critical fortunes on the writer's work. As a theoretical-methodological framework, propositions were used to think about the “literary field” and canonical and identity dimensions, biography and autobiography. The study considered, in general terms, that the performance and work of the literary man are central to (re)thinking the debates about the history of Piauí literature and literary criticism, through the dynamic elements of (auto)biographical writing.