Fronteiras e utopias da construção identitária Mato-Grossense: o Hino de Dom Aquino Corrêa

Abstract

The utopian boundaries in the construction of identity from Mato Grosso’s literature, which anchor representation in poetics forms by Dom Aquino Corrêa, entitled Hino provides a constant dialogue between literature, history and local culture, interwoven these discursive boundaries to develop a set of images that build a profile of paradise to these places, and in particular a conjecture of the government discourse reinforce this construction of Eldorado. In Hino, the images of some Mato grosso’s historical facts composes the põem: the paulist’s presence in a geografical boundary that brought about fighting with the indians and the paraguayans, the image of Eldorado that has adopted by the state’s government since the discovery of gold mines that intensifies with the agricultural cultivation (the maté), and the images of nature and climate. It is in this aspect that characterizes the Brazilian literature, from its onset, the poetry by Dom Aquino Corrêa find support to run through and push the boundaries of utopian literature identity construction site.