Orfeu de carapinha surrendered to the muse of Guinea: the burlesque poetry of Luiz Gama and the ideal of racial whitening in the brazilian empire
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-1184.v0i29p204-226Keywords:
Brazilian literature, history, Primeiras Trovas Burlescas de GetulinoAbstract
The article has as its object of analysis Primeiras Trovas Burlescas de Getulino (1859), one of the pioneer works on anti-slavery literature in Brazilian literature, authored by Luiz Gama, black poet, egress of slavery and abolitionist leader. The aim is to discuss the way in which the poetry in question constructs the image of black ethnicity and dialogues with the discourse of racial inferiority and the population whitening thesis, in force during the brazilian Empire.
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2019-09-19
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Benevides, J. L. G., Silva, S. A., & Coqueiro, W. dos S. (2019). Orfeu de carapinha surrendered to the muse of Guinea: the burlesque poetry of Luiz Gama and the ideal of racial whitening in the brazilian empire. Literatura E Sociedade, 24(29), 204-226. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-1184.v0i29p204-226