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| Author(s): |
Dayana Façanha
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2020-03-30 |
| Examining board members: |
Robert Wayne Andrew Slenes;
Denilson Botelho;
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz;
Márcia Abreu;
Raquel Gryszczenko Alves Gomes
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| Advisor: | Robert Wayne Andrew Slenes |
| Abstract | |
This thesis brings together a set of 19th century Brazilian literary works that discuss slavery, as well as the condition of enslaved or former slave characters. Emphasizing the period of 1830-1871, crossing authors and interregional texts, mainly between Rio de Janeiro and Maranhão, it interprets the interplay between literature and the main political and cultural debates in the country. These discussions concerned the role of Africans and people of African descent in the formation of the nation. In addition, the thesis studies how a certain set of authors and works recorded and criticized the existence and the legacy of the illegal slave trade between 1831-1850. The research highlights the antislavery commitment of the poet Gonçalves Dias and analyzes the novel by Maria Firmina dos Reis in connection to its immediate literary circle. In a final chapter, this study analyzes how repeated references to ghosts reflect both a critical diagnosis and a diffuse sense of guilt in the maintaining of slavery in Brazil (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/19848-5 - African and Afro-Brazilian characters: race, slavery and the illegal slave trade in Brazilian Literature during the formation of the nation, 1830-1870 |
| Grantee: | Dayana Façanha de Carvalho |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |