Isaías Caminha: a narrator behind the scenes of news
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2009v15p86Keywords:
Lima Barreto, Brazilian Literature, Language and powerAbstract
Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha (Recollections of the clerk Isaías Caminha) is the first book published by Lima Barreto and it has always been seen as a book in which the author’s subjective issues badly influence the narrative. This paper intends to show that the use of the character Isaías Caminha, a poor mulatto, has an important role to reveal the power structures in the first days of the Brazilian Republic. Hence, Isaías Caminha goes through a significant process of learning in the newspaper he works for that leads him to make use of a language style in his recollections which are opposite to the one practiced by writers of the dominant social class.References
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