O nativismo ambíguo de Gregorio de Mattos & Guerra

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the Barroque poet Gregorio de Mattos & Guerra’s nativism sentiment. To many critics, the poet was first brazilian writer to express it, when he satirized the portuguese colonial exploitation. However, the analyse of his verses and the his supred biographer licenciado Rabello’s description leads to an ambiguous nativism or even an antinativism sentiment of the poet. This contradition is explained by the antithetical tendency of the Barroque associeted to the poet’s feigned, dramatic temperament and the great social mobility of the Portuguese America in the 17th century.