The literary archive of the piauiense writer Fontes Ibiapina

Abstract

There is a growing number of institutions dedicated to curating archives of writers in Brazil. Consequently, there was an increase in research in spaces that hold documents from primary sources. Assuming that a writer's archive is a particular literary memory space, then the process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization of these archives arises, once they leave the private for the public. Thus, the present study presents the literary archive of the Piauí writer João Nonon de Moura Fontes Ibiapina. Faced with a vast and rich literary production in cultural, memorialistic, historical and fictional issues and with regionalist approaches, the need arose to understand the literary production of Fontes Ibiapina from his literary archive, since the documents that compose it have information about the culture and history of the state of Piauí. It was observed the existence of authorial documents that contribute to a broader understanding of the writer's production. This study invites researchers who study the work of Fontes Ibiapina to investigate his literary documents that precede the published work and that has much to reveal about the history, culture and, mainly, Piauí literature.