A religiosidade afro-amazônica Em banco de canoa, de Álvaro Maia, e Batuque, de Bruno de Menezes: a ficcionalização da espiritualidade do homem amazônico

Abstract

This academic work want to analyze the fictionalization of the spirituality of the Amazonian man, especially the “seringueiro ribeirinho”, on the prose of the Amazonian Alvaro Maia and in the poetry of Bruno de Menezes from Pará, respectively, in Banco de Canoa e Batuque. The research shows how the development of the amazonian faith through syncretism btween christian religiosities, indigenous religiosities and black people religiosities, and how this new faith consolidated and enriched the regional mystical universe of the Amazon, transforming it into poetry and fiction. Amazon jungle, various religiosities developed, providing an environment for the poetic myth, with the theoretical basis of Socorro Santiago (1986), Eduardo Galvão (1995) and Paes Loureiro (1995), among others. It is concluded that the religiosity this man is multifaceted, with a strong Afro-Amazonian component.