Narrative and historical experience in Brazilian black writers

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Abstract

The first part of this paper discusses the minority condition of the novel genre within the literary production of Brazilian black authorship, given that it is a problem of broad dimensions, mainly considering the national tradition established around this genre historically claimed in the construction of identity of the nation. In the second moment of the text, the question of the novel form properly addresses the representation of the national historical experience narrated about the exclusion of the black subject. Finally, I highlight the pioneering work of the black novelist Maria Firmina dos Reis, thinking Úrsula as a nineteenth-century novel whose discursive paradigm is in circulation - as can be seen in the novels by Brazilian black authors published in the 20th and 21st centuries.