Isabel C. R. Ferreira

"Racial Democracy" in Literary Works

African-American and Afro-Brazilian Perspectives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the way in which African- American and Afro-Brazilian prose fictions perceive and critique the concept of racial democracy in Brazil. African-Americans view Brazil as a paradise to escape segregation and violence in the 1920s since Brazilian government exports this idea about the country. In the 1960s and 1970s, there is a change in their perspective as some African-Americans visit Brazil. They realize and question racial harmony as they conclude it is a veiled racism and disillusionment. Some Afro-Brazilian writers, at first, portrait Afro-Brazilian characters as oppressed and marginalized, but they are not fully aware of that since there has never been any institutionalized segregation. Later, in the 1960s and 1970s, Afro- Brazilians' movements flourish, influenced by American's movement, bringing self-awareness and a sense of identity to deconstruct the "myth of racial democracy."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9783639120516
• ISBN-10: 3639120515
• Artikelnr.: 27886386

Autorenporträt

Isabel C. R. Ferreira has been a professor at Universidade Federal do Tocantins, in Brazil, since 2009. She earned her Master's and Doctoral degrees in Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She taught Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian literature at the University of Oklahoma for two years.