A realidade legitimada pelo discurso: a importância de Dantas Motta para Minas Gerais

Abstract

The present dissertation features to the academic community the writing of Dantas Motta through the critical analysis of poems of the books: “Planície dos Mortos” (1936-1944), “Anjo de Capote” (1946-1952), and “Elegias do País das Gerais” (1943-1958). The research also approach the culture and their multiple characterizations, finding out how Motta prints it in his work, so as to convert it into a regionalism, which can be understood as ―mineiridade‖, transforming itself into the identity elements of modernist writers. This study is done through the interdisciplinary nature of Literature, History and Geography, among others, using, for this purpose, authors like Alfredo Bosi, Maria Arminda do Nascimento Arruda, Otávio Paz, Stuart Hall, among others, in order to provide support for many inquiries arose along this as well as for his writing.