Between the lines of O tronco do Ipê: political and social debates during slavery, 1867-1870

• Grant number: 12/04976-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: October 01, 2012
• End date: July 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Sidney Chalhoub
• Grantee: Dayana Façanha de Carvalho
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The objective of this project is to relate José de Alencar's literary works with his experiences and political positions regarding slave emancipation -more precisely, the political debates that brought about the enactment of the law of the Free Womb (September 28, 1871). Alencar opposed the law of 1871 as adequate means to achieve slave emancipation. The main research strategy here is to read parliamentary debates as they appeared on the pages of Jornal do Commercio, thus seeking to contextualize such debates more broadly, paying due attention to Alencar´s interventions and the ways he transposed some of the themes of such political discussions to his fiction -that is, to the novel O tronco do ipê.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CARVALHO, Dayana Façanha de. Politics and slavery in O tronco do ipê, by José de Alencar. 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.