Letters, slaves and women: three versions of a same trope
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-901X.v0i67p81-101Keywords:
Brazilian ficcion, trope, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, José de Alencar, Machado de AssisAbstract
This paper intends to study and explain a literary trope – a domestic slave as the bearer of a love letter – and its modifications in three nineteenth-century Brazilian works, namely: Rosa (1849), b y Joaquim M anuel de Macedo; O demônio familiar (1857), by José de Alencar; and, last, Iaiá Garcia (1878), by Machado de Assis. By using a slave as t he bearer of a love letter, these writers discuss, in different ways, all historically determined, the same social problem, which concerns patriarchal authority and its dissolution throughout nineteenth-century.Downloads
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2017-08-31
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Cerqueira, R. (2017). Letters, slaves and women: three versions of a same trope. Revista Do Instituto De Estudos Brasileiros, 67, 81-101. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-901X.v0i67p81-101