Afro American Literature
Mostrando 1-10 de 10 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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1. Seroprevalence of rodent-borne viruses in Afro-descendent communities in Brazil
ABSTRACT During the Brazilian slavery period, many African migrants were brought to the American continent. Historically, some of these migrants escaped from the Brazilian gold mines and farms to which they had been brought and settled in remote valleys and this was the main mode of resistance to the slavery system. These runaway-slave descendant communities
Rev. Inst. Med. trop. S. Paulo. Publicado em: 20/12/2019
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2. Tradução de poesia e performance: “Still I Rise”, de Maya Angelou
Resumo: Neste artigo, realizo uma avaliação de cinco traduções para o português brasileiro do poema “Still I Rise” da escritora afro-americana Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Em seguida, e com base nessa crítica, apresento e discuto o poema em minha tradução, cujo objetivo principal foi produzir um texto para performance, isto é, que funcionasse oralm
Ilha Desterro. Publicado em: 29/08/2019
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3. Trauma, memória e história em A Mercy, de Tony Morrison
Toni Morrison¿s latest novel A Mercy (2008), evokes the past of peoples that were historically confined to the margins of the American culture. Morrison goes back to the period of the Anglo-Saxon colonization in the 17th century to tell the story of Florens, who is offered by her mother as the payment of a debt by the plantation owner. Florens¿ story is na
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 2012
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4. Corpo e memória em 'Beloved', de Toni Morrison
A norte-americana Toni Morrison é conhecida por escrever romances que tratam da experiência dos negros na história dos Estados Unidos. Em Beloved, publicado em 1987, Morrison resgata a temática da escravidão para recontar esse período histórico na perspectiva de uma comunidade afro-americana. O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar as estratégias dis
Publicado em: 2010
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5. Unveiling passing : a reading of Nella Larsen's life story and literary work
Esta dissertação apresenta uma leitura do romance Passing, com o foco na caracterização e enredo a partir da perspectiva de duas questões inter-relacionadas. Primeiro, a leitura examina a questão da maternidade e a questão da raça na caracterização de duas protagonistas, considerando que ambas as questões sustentam uma importância histórica no c
Publicado em: 2009
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6. How many patches make a quilt ? / Com quantos retalhos se faz um quilt? costurando a narrativa de três escritoras negras contemporâneas
The present thesis intends to establish the confluences between novels by three distinct authors. From a womanist perspective, two novels by each author were analyzed and their similarities were highlighted, especially concerning the treatment provided to the female characters. The thesis is made up of five chapters. The first one deals with concepts and the
Publicado em: 2008
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7. Zora Neale Hurston &Their Eyes Were Watching God: a construção de uma identidade afro-americana feminina e a tradução para o português do Brasil / Zora Neale Hurston &Their Eyes Were Watching God: The construction of an african-american female identity and the translation turn in brazilian portuguese
The present dissertation has two main goals. The first, in part I, is to analyze the construction of the female identity of the main character of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. Therefore, four chapters compose the first part of this work. In the first three, before the discussion, the text tries to bring the readers closer to
Publicado em: 2007
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8. Invented memories: a comparative study between the novel Relato de um certo Oriente, by Milton Hatoum and Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada Terra, by Mia Couto / Memórias inventadas: um estudo comparado entre Relato de um certo oriente, de Milton Hatoum e Um rio chamado Tempo, uma casa chamada Terra, de Mia Couto
This paper carries out a comparative study between the novel Relato de um certo Oriente, by brazilian writer Milton Hatoum and Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada Terra, by mozambican writer Mia Couto, with the purpose of verifying the construction strategies of memory. Based on the hypothesis that the memory, in these texts, is imagination of possibiliti
Publicado em: 2007
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9. Celebrando o gênero feminino através da maternidade em narrativas de escravos e posteriores à escravidão / Celebrating womanhood through motherhood in (post)slave narratives
A study of motherhood as a recurrent theme in African American Literature in the last three centuries and this may be seen in the words of Harriet Jacobs and Maya Angelou. In their autobiographical works, respectively, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the authors place their marginalized black female self in the cent
Publicado em: 2006
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10. Poesia negra das AmÃricas: Solano Trindade e Langston Hughes
This thesis gives priority to the black poetry study of the Brazilian poet Solano Trindade (1908-1974) and of the north American poet Langston Hughes (1902-1967). My research also visits other poetsâ works such as Countee Cullen (in the United States) and the Caribbean poets NicolÃs GuillÃn (from Cuba), Aimà CÃsaire (from Maritinica) and some Brazilian
Publicado em: 2006