Region, tradition and criticism. Piricles Morais and literary representation of Amazon

This article attempts to explain how the processes of regional representation of the Amazonia were formulated in the years 1920's and 1930's and how they were directly linked to the new political and intellectual configurations in that period. Considering that the modernist movement in Brazil had furthered a rearrangement within the field of culture, a series of alliances including a range of authors from different regions of the country had generated substantial effects on the modes of regional representation. From the analysis of some works and critical texts of Pericles Moraes, the paper attempts to demonstrate how his affirmation as a local author authorized to establish criteria of a regionalism Amazonian has rejected the modernist aesthetic experimentalism and preserved a literary tradition of understanding about the reality of the Amazonia.