O achamento de Portugal: implicações entre lusofonia e lusotropicalismo na poesia

Abstract

The poetry anthology O achamento de Portugal, edited in 2005, in Belo Horizonte and supported by the Portuguese consulate of the city, brings together texts of many contemporary poets from Minas Gerais and only one from a Lusitanian writer. This book consists is in an interesting document about the cultural relations between Brazil and Portugal on contemporaneity, especially when we think about the construction of a usual imaginary that defines the idea of lusofonia. In this paper, it is analyzed the possible implications of the controversial concept of lusotropicalismo, attributed to Gilberto Freyre, in some poetic and/or political voices presented on this project, beside to reinforce, however, the critical character and poetry‟s posture of resistance in relation to the project, in much of the texts published on the book.