When in 1918 Romulo Paredes (Chicago 1877-1961) published the poem A Samarem , the excitement among readers was so great that, apart from the scandal broke out against judicial Nursing Care Process . The poem does not have the language strenuously fine or elegant style of modernism, but the strength and idealism of a romantic presence. Romulo Paredes It denounces the genocide against peasants and indigenous rubber tapper. And funny thing: called "hypocritical and stupid tribe / no morals and no conscience, only imitation / of superior peoples, evils and the clothes "to the power groups (merchants, clerics and military) governing Iquitos. differed also the treatment of indigenous people: then treated almost as animals, this time they are compatriots, heroic and honest. The anecdotal aspect only reinforces the political commitment of Paredes. Overcoming the illusions of the Indian Society gestated in Lima, and ahead of Mariategui, cut short the cares of Creole and strongly feudal power to proclaim that only an indigenous government (or from them) may build a large country. The distinction is not, however, racial or ethnic but class: the indigenous majority as part workers. Romulo Paredes was persecuted and threatened with death, and had to flee from Loreto. Was a judge, and as such alleged genocide (30 000 dead in less than 20 years) cauchero Julio C. Arana. For his part, like so many heroes and indigenous rebels, it was Samarem the Huambisas. His fight against the rubber and the priests was heroic, and the poem written in his memory has multiple meanings: a romantic style test and rebellious, testimony from an era of terror and heroism feudal farmer (between native and mestizo riverine), need power to a people oppressed, precursor of Amazonian Indians who had no followers in Loreto, and great courage to write the record straight, among others. The poem Samarem A song is a fraternal and unique. For honest and determined spirit, beyond the intentions mesocratic provincial and nearly all the poetry Amazon later. Neither Lequerica and Almeida, the clearest poets Amazon dared so much. Pablo Macera did it in one of his many and conflicting statements by saying that in Peru the power had to take the Indians. But Romulo Paredes brought a new sensibility and experienced a new aesthetic. Your intellectual vision exceeded his artistic intuition. For the Amazon, however, was a founder of social poetry and initiator of a proposal whose daring is still a encouragement and challenge.
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