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Fiction et café dans la vallée du Paraïba Trois romans de la fazenda esclavagiste
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Machado, Regina Maria Abu-Jamra |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | In the Brazilian literature of the 19th century, three novels took as a theme the fazenda slavery: O tronco do ipe by Jose de Alencar, A escrava Isaura by Bernardo Guimaraes and Rei Negro by Coelho Neto. They were all written between 1871 and 1914 and their action takes place around the 1850s, which marks the peak of the imperial period and of romanticism in the country. Besides the period, these novels have in common their location, the Paraiba valley, where the coffee fazendas were mostly concentrated. Both grandiose and ephemeral, their representation recreates a moment of fugace richness and yet crucial in the construction of the Brazilian society. The novelistic genre seems to be related to the crystallization of the slavery order within the confined universe of the fazenda, to the polarization between masters and slaves and to the exclusion of the “free and poor” who form a set apart population due to that social order. Through their textual arrangements these three novels contribute to the introduction in the Brazilian fiction of a mixture of styles which is confirmed in the “polyphony” of the fazenda. This fictional setting testifies to the extremely fast uprise and collapse of this valley by creating a specific “chronotope” for the matter. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01086733/document |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
