NEGRO IN BRAZILIAN LITERATURE

“In the long history of Brazilian culture a brilliant part has been played by the descendants od African slaves. To a large extent they have painted their country’s pictures, composed its music and written its books, and they have distinguished themselves also as enfineers, teachers and physicians. The greatest sculptor, Antônio Francisco Lisboa, and the greatest novelist, Machado de Assis, were both mulattoes, as were the firs important musician, Father José Maurício, and the first great engineer, André Rebouças. The descendants of Africans have also been the subjects of painters and writers, aswe see in Vítor Meireles’ heroic canvas, ‘A Batalha dos Guararapes’, with its figures of Negro soldiers captained by Henrique Dias, and as is evident in many of Portinari’s canvases, in the work of such a great nineteenth century poet as Castro Alves and in the novels of outstanding authors like Aluízio Azevedo of the naturalist school and José Lins do Rego and Jorge Amado among the contemporaries.”
Do índice: The Negro in the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula; The Negro in early Colonial Literature; The Negro in the final phase of Colonial Literature; The Negro theme in the first half of the nineteenth century; The predecessors of Castro Alves; Castro Alves and his successors; The Negro in the Brazilian Drama, 1850-1888; The Negro in the Romantic Novel; The Negro in the Novels of Machado de Assis and the Naturalists.
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