Cenas da escravidão na literatura oitocentista

Abstract

This research analyzes the literary and social representation of Black people in nineteenth- century Brazilian novels: As Vítimas-Algozes (1869) by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo; A Escrava Isaura (1871) by Bernardo Guimarães; and Fantina (1871) by Francisco Coelho Duarte Badaró, contrasting them with representations found in the press of the same period, which often objectified Black people as servile beings. The study investigates how this dual representation is configured, based on the premise that the proximity between literary texts and journalistic discourse reveals ideological complementarities and oppositions. The theoretical framework draws on Zilberman (1989) regarding literary text reception and Gilberto Freyre (2003) on the representation of enslaved Black people in newspaper advertisements. The general objective is to understand the figuration of Black people in these novels, while the specific objectives are: to identify their representations in the selected literary works; to analyze the image of Black people in nineteenth-century newspaper advertisements