Open AccessMaria Firmina dos Reis: a fundadora negra de outra tradição literária brasileira
Author(s) -
Fernanda Rodrigues de Miranda
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cadernos de literatura comparada
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2183-2242
pISSN - 1645-1112
DOI - 10.21747/21832242/litcomp43a4
Subject(s) - portuguese , humanities , context (archaeology) , constitution , colonialism , order (exchange) , work (physics) , art , history , political science , philosophy , linguistics , physics , law , archaeology , finance , economics , thermodynamics
In this paper we analyze the work Úrsula (1859), by Afro-Brazilian writer Maria Firmina dos Reis, pioneer in the publication of the novel and the abolitionist content in Portuguese-language fiction. Through some general lines about the context of the work, the observation of the preface and the constitution of black characters, the objective is to highlight the extent to which the work operates a fracture to the colonial order as a unique framework for black people, establishing a new tradition in Brazilian literature