A leitura no Brasil Colônia e suas (inter)relações com a contemporaneidade

Abstract

The understanding of reading and book production in Brazil can be seen as a process of social construction based on the mode of colonization arbitrated by the Portuguese metropolis. Given this, the intellectual formation of the Brazilian suffered losses, once he was denied access to important ideological constructions and gains, because he had to overcome the coercive cases imposed by the Lusitanian homeland. But Vaz de Caminha, Gregorio de Matos, Tomas Antonio Gonzaga were some of the names that have achieved in the contemporary times the fair value due not only to the textual quality of their works but to the effort to be writers in a country with few readers, incentives linked to the intelligentsia. In this sense, one can perceive colonization of the country not only as exploratory, but also as an inhibitor of the Brazilian emancipatory process. The reflection of this, in the current literature, is the reproduction of situations that mark the socio-historical construction of the country from its colonial base. Therefore, to understand today, it is necessary to revisit yesterday.