Infância e memória em meios tons na poesia de Manuel Bandeira

Abstract

The article addresses the epistemological possibilities of childhood taking into account the dimensions of memory in Manuel Bandeira's poems. In this study, memory will be understood as experiences and events lived both individually and collectively. The poet uses orality as a poetic resource in evoking the past. In this sense, childhood images frequently appear associated with the cultural and identity heritage of the sick northeastern boy, prematurely confronted with death and nostalgic for the popular repertoire present in the range of everyday knowledge emanating from the verbalism of nursery rhymes, toys, advertisements, speeches.” wrong” and oral stories. Such elements, central to Bander's poetics, highlight the poet's notorious commitment to his place and time, but they also reveal remnants of colonial practices and thoughts that continued throughout the 20th century and even in the effervescence of modernism, a movement of that Bandeira was contemporary.