Literary generation. Modernity and tradition. Contemporary mato-grossense literature.
The late 1980’s impacted the capital of Mato Grosso, generating cultural initiatives of reaction. The transformations in the urban scene, the migratory flows, the decay of the cultural hegemony of Casa Barão de Melgaço and the strengthening of a new intellectual center that gravitated around the Federal University of Mato Grosso, were responsible for the birth of a new literary generation, entitled in this work “Geração Coxipó”. Irreverent young people, gathered around collective publications, inspired by Wlademir Dias-Pino's anti- academic non-conformism, improvised the first publications and established themselves with the launch of Revista Vôte! and other journals. The literary path of the authors of the Generation Coxipó is marked by ambivalence. On the one hand, they fought against the aesthetics related to the Academia Mato-grossense de Letras; on the other hand, identifying with modernity, they rejected the transformations arising from the process of migration, occupation and questioning of local tradition.
The theoretical framework used in the research covers Maffesoli's concept of generation, the fields of symbolic power and Bourdieu's (2018) definitions of hegemony and Latour's (2013) and Compagnon (2011) definitions for modernity and antimodernity. Regarding the Brazilian identity construction in literature and its ambivalence in modernism, the bibliography of Antonio Candido (2017), Carlos Berriel (2000), Flora Süssekind (1994), Gilberto Mendonça Telles (1972), Sérgio Miceli (2012) was consulted , among other critics. Specifically regarding literature from Mato Grosso, Rubens de Mendonça (1970), Hilda Gomes Dutra Magalhães (2002), Mário Cézar Silva Leite (2005), Marinei Almeida (2012) and Carlos Gomes de Carvalho (2004), in addition to the Institute's periodicals Historical and Geographic of Mato Grosso, from the Mato Grosso Academy of Letters from 1922 to 2015 and from the literary magazines Vôte !, Estação Leitura e Fagulha.