Os romancistas da Abolição: representação do escravo e discurso abolicionista nas obras de Bernardo Guimarães e Joaquim Manuel de Macedo

• Autor(a) principal: ALVES, Marcos Francisco
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/001300000dp0c
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2333
• topic: Bernardo Guimarães; Joaquim Manuel de Macedo; Abolição; Bernardo Guimarães; Joaquim Manuel de Macedo; Abolition; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

By comparing the two authors of literary conception, Bernardo Guimarães and Joaquim Manuel de Macedo on slavery/abolition, this work aims to discuss the abolitionist debates of the late nineteenth century and its representations of the slave. It attempts to show how the literary representation of slavery appears in the work of two writers and how it dialogues with the debates of the abolitionist period. The dissertation conceives the two authors as the "novelists of Abolition", analyzes the abolitionist discourse and how the slave is represented in the novels A Escrava Isaura and Uma história de quilombolas (Bernardo Guimarães) and As vítimas algozes: quadros da escravidão (Joaquim Manuel de Macedo). Both Bernardo Guimarães and Joaquim Manuel de Macedo romanticized the slave life, calling for the abolition, but their ideas have profound differences. Comparing and contrasting ideas present in the novels, we will examine the figure of the slave and abolitionist debate, dialogue with the context in which these works were written: the long process for the abolition of slavery in Brazil.