Machado de Assis: entre o preconceito, a abolição e a canonização

Marli Fantini Scarpelli

Machado de Assis: prejudice, abolition, and canonization

Authors

Marli Fantini Scarpelli UFMG-CNPq

Keywords:

slave ideology, racism, African descendancy.

Abstract

In denouncing and foreseeing, in fiction, the focus on racism – one of the worst facets of the slave ideology – Machado de Assis calls attention to the danger of erasing African descendancy in Brazil, in view of the fact that African descendancy was threathened to be aborted at source.

Author Biography

Marli Fantini Scarpelli, UFMG-CNPq

Professora Associada da Faculdade de Letras da UFMG, Mestre em Estudos Literários (1994) e Doutora em Literatura Comparada (2000), ambos pela UFMG, com estágio de Pós-Doutorado em Literatura Brasileira na USP (20032004). Organizou vários livros e publicou, dentre outros, o ensaio Guimarães Rosa -Fronteiras, margens, passagens (São Paulo: Senac/Ateliê, 2004).

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2008-12-30

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Scarpelli, M. F. (2008). Machado de Assis: prejudice, abolition, and canonization. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 15(23). Retrieved from https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/matraga/article/view/27886

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Vol. 15 No. 23 (2008): Machado de Assis and Eça de Queirós

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