This paper discusses the novel Galvez imperador do Acre, Amazon published in 1976
by the Amazonas’s writer Márcio Souza, establishing relationships between the literary
and the aesthetic avant-garde modernist proposals, both in Europe and Brazil, offering
thus the investigation of the relationship between modernism and Post-Modernism, and
the relations between literature, society, history and culture. We will address issues such
as the redefinition of literary texts or not in Galvez imperador do Acre through the
process of collage and intertextuality, the relationship between the novel and the
historical moment which incorporates, as well as one in which it was produced, the
rescue of the past a critical and transformative approaches and possibilities of reading
the literary text with a view to theories post-modernist and post-colonialists. We
observe, therefore, how it reproduces the Belle Epoque and the extraction of latex in the
Amazon and its aesthetic fragmentary, consisting of several citations of canonical
authors, investigating the functioning of collage and cannibalism as the main tools of
subversion to the complaint and cultural process Import of European values lived by
Amazon capitals at the time represented by the novel and whose criticism can be
extrapolated to the whole process of cultural formation in Brazil and the Amazon. For
this, we will bring into question the theories of Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin,
Claude Levi-Strauss, Fredric Jameson, Luiz Costa Lima, Antonio Candido, Aijaz
Ahmad, Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Canclini, Silviano Santiago, Angel Rama, Linda
Hutcheon, Antoine Compagnon, among others, in order to, from the novel under
review, deepen the theoretical discussion about the relationship between literary texts
and comparative between Literary Studies and other fields of study.
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