The “african night” arrived in the “país das palmeiras”: representations of the enslaved african in the poem Martim Cererê
In this article, we will discuss how Cassiano Ricardo appropriated the Brazilian slave historical past to compose his poem Martim Cererê (1927). In order to understand this appropriation, we will conduct a comparative analysis between the versions of this poem based on a question: the understanding...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2021 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repository: | Anos 90 (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/111812 |
| Online Access: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/111812 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Literature. History. Representation literatura história representação. Literatura modernista História |
| Summary: | In this article, we will discuss how Cassiano Ricardo appropriated the Brazilian slave historical past to compose his poem Martim Cererê (1927). In order to understand this appropriation, we will conduct a comparative analysis between the versions of this poem based on a question: the understanding of the role of the black in the formation of national identity and society. In tracing this path, we will defend the need to pay attention to the relationship between the author and his work taking into account the conceptions of Roger Chartier (2002), as well as to think about the literary field from the positions of Pierre Bourdieu (2012). We will see that the different representations of black people in this poem were marked by negativity and the distortion of their physical and spiritual characteristics. In this sense, this work was guided by the historical perspective of the text and the complexity of the work and thus we will understand the negative ways in which the enslaved African was appropriated in this literary work. |
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