“Paresque” a field

Abstract

This article is an excerpt from a larger text called Benedictus Placere: A Campaign in the Amazon of Pará, which explores the intersection of different social fields in the Amazon region of Pará, through the life stories and works of the writer Benedicto Monteiro. It analyzes how Benedicto Monteiro's narratives, especially in this excerpt, Verdevagomundo, articulate literature and ethnography, constructing a social critique of the Amazon during the military regime. Using Monteiro's Amazonian Tetralogy (Verdevagomundo, O Minossauro, and A Terceira Margem), we examine how literary narratives reflect and denounce issues of class, race, and gender during the period of military rule in Brazil. Monteiro, with his intimate connection to the Amazon region, uses his personal and social experience to construct a literary discourse that mixes autobiographical and fictional elements, presenting a social critique grounded in the historical and social context of the Amazon. Anthropologically, this can be categorized as a field of research within a mix of literary production and conversations with an Amazonian "literary-sociological" author.