Diálogo entre Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha e A Maldição de Canaan: o preconceito racial na sociedade brasileira sob a ótica do anti-herói derrotado

Tacyana Muniz Caldonazzo Moretti

doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2009v17p40

Dialogue between Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha and A Maldição de Canaan: racial prejudice in brazilian society through the view of the loser/antihero

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Tacyana Muniz Caldonazzo Moretti Universidade Estadual de Londrina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2009v17p40

Keywords:

Prejudice, Antihero, Society, Loser

Abstract

Through a comparison between Lima Barreto’s Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha and Romeu Crusoé’s A Maldição de Canaan, this article intends to analyze the denunciation of racial prejudice in Brazil, through the point of view of two antihero narrators that succumb to the system. Both works express the indignation of characters who in the retrospective of their lives tell about many kinds of discrimination they have suffered in order to unmask the hypocrisy of a country that proclaims to be prejudice free.

Author Biography

Tacyana Muniz Caldonazzo Moretti, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Master's student in Letters at the Universidade Estadual de Londrina.

References

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CANDIDO, Antonio. 1987. “Os olhos, a barca e o espelho”. A educação pela noite e outros ensaios. São Paulo: Ática.

CRUSOÉ, Romeu. 1951. A maldição de Canaan. Rio de Janeiro: Irmãos Di Giorgio.

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2009-12-30

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Moretti, Tacyana Muniz Caldonazzo. “Dialogue Between Recordações Do escrivão Isaías Caminha and A Maldição De Canaan: Racial Prejudice in Brazilian Society through the View of the Loser Antihero”. Terra Roxa E Outras Terras: Revista De Estudos Literários, vol. 17, no. 2, Dec. 2009, pp. 40-48, doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2009v17p40.

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Vol. 17 No. 2: Literatura afro-brasileira (prosa de ficção)

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