Infância, de Graciliano Ramos: um relato dentro do período pós-abolição / Childhood, of Graciliano Ramos: a report inside the period of post-abolition
AUTOR(ES)
Wellington Gustavo Pereira
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2010
RESUMO
This paper seeks to locate the racial issue at Graciliano Ramos, more specifically, in the memoir book Childhood. From some selected chapters, it is possible to show how the writer was able to approach the issue and to analyze the black peoples social and economic situation at the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, the post-abolition of slavery in Brazil. To reinforce the main issue, this study rises the subject in the rest of Graciliano Ramos work, interacts with the memoir book critique, and, presents some specialized researchers ideas about the racial problem in Brazil. The images of the black child, woman, man and, inevitably, the mulatto are compared to similar images created by others brazilians novelists. Finally, in a perspective of cultural differences between countries, some situations slightly confront Booker Washingtons biography, the educator born in the United States, whose book was translated into Portuguese by the writer from Alagoas.
ASSUNTO(S)
graciliano ramos racial memorialismo post-abolition pós-abolição graciliano ramos childhood infância memoir racial
