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Year:: 1999
Contributor:: França, Jean Marcel Carvalho (author)
Genre:: articles
Subject:: Brazilian literature > Early works to 1800; Blacks in literature > Brazil; Literature and history; Slavery; Race; Racism; Plantation workers; Sugar trade
Extent:: pp. 81-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/1a4y-z064

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Abstract:: A panoramic view of the negro presence in the main writings produced in Brazil during the colonial period, this essay dispassionately maps out the works of José de Anchieta, Fernão Cardim, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, Ambrósio F. Brandão, Frei Vicente do Salvador, Antônio Vieira, Gregório de Mattos, André João Antonil, Rocha Pita, Frei Santa Rita Durão, Basílio da Gama, Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, Cláudio Manuel da Costa, Silva Alvarenga e Alvarenga Peixoto. In the process, the frequency with which Africans and Afro-Brazilians are mentioned in these authors' works and what figures they are given when called to the literary stage are detected.; Uma visão ampla da presença negra nos principais escritos produzidos no Brasil durante o período colonial, este ensaio mapeia de forma objetiva as obras de José de Anchieta, Fernão Cardim, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, Ambrósio F. Brandão, Frei Vicente do Salvador, Antônio Vieira, Gregório de Mattos, André João Antônio, Rocha Pita, Frei Santa Rita Durão, Basílio da Gama, Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, Cláudio Manuel da Costa, Silva Alvarenga e Alvarenga Peixoto. No processo, a freqüência com que africanos e afro-brasileiros são mencionados nas obras desses autores e as formas que assumem quando chamados para a o palco literário são detectados.

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França, Jean Marcel Carvalho, "Black figures in Brazilian Colonial writing" (1999). BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/1a4y-z064

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BRASIL/BRAZIL Vol. 12, no. 21

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BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature

BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature (ISSN: 2526-4885), founded in 1988, publishes scholarly articles on Brazilian literature and in Comparative Literature with a focus on Brazilian literature, as well as book reviews, interviews with writers, English-language translations of Brazilian literature …

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Black figures in Brazilian Colonial writing