Antônio Girão Barroso: uma biografia fragmentada e dispersa de um poeta e educador

Abstract

This research aimed to reconstruct the humanistic, social and artistic path of Antônio Girão Barroso, starting from the premise that he embodied a unique educational attitude: Professor of Poetics. Our narrative takes place in the city of Fortaleza, in a time span ranging from the 1930s to the 1950s, when Antônio Girão Barroso published books, wrote pieces of literary and art criticism, organized events about Poetry, took part in establishing artistic groups such as Grupo CLÃ and Grupo SIN, started literary magazines (Revista de Cultura CLÃ), and helped creating exhibitions focused on visual arts, such as Salão de Abril. Analysis is constituted by Microhistory, and Biographical / Historiographic data of oral and written nature. In order to properly address the object of our research, we mainly worked with historiographic and journalistic sources in a local perspective, for a more relevant contextualization of scenarios and actions of our author. His Poetic and Educational legacy was thoroughly illustrated by testimonials of numerous writers who, at an early age, received feedback and orientation from Antônio Girão Barroso. Thus, his vanguard standpoints granted relevance to this research and emphasized the importance to introduce to new generations a local character who was an Artist as much as a Professor, a person in consonance with his own people and times, always fostering new perspectives. Literary analysis of his poetic works showed strong connections to the Modernist movement, by means of which he promoted and presented to new writers the essence and spirit of new aesthetics, themes and variations of expressive resources.