A escrava Isaura: uma visÃo multidimensional

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

This essay aims to review the many secrets that lie behind of the representations of a mixed blood slave named Isaura, born in Brazil under the Romanticism influence. The character created by Bernardo GuimarÃes during the second half of the Nineteenth Century exposes many contradictions that can be explained by the Post-modernism theories. Like the feuilleton-roman, a hybrid genre born from the fusion of the written press and the Literature, Isaura is a victim of prejudice of not being accepted because of her background. This dissertation follows the footsteps of this slave from the popular romance A Escrava Isaura (1875) to the television soapopera Escrava Isaura (Slave Isaura, 1976) to revel the many faces of our Culture and its transformations. In the Literature, there werethe influence of Greco-roman myths, of Eighteenth Century English novel, and nineteenth century American Romance influences. In the adaptation to the Media of Bernardo GuimarÃesâ romance, we will prove that Isaura is kept subject to the rules of the Cultural Industry. To keep herself alive she has to transform herself: idealized and perfect during Romanticism; banished and dammed during Modernism; rescued and accepted by the public with the help of Television at the end of the twentieth Century. The many facets of Isauraâs myth demonstrate the construction of the Brazilian peopleâs self-image: ideologically white, people of mixed race who do not see themselves as they really are

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letras representaÃÃo do personagem - isaura escrava isaura - representaÃÃes pÃs-modernas

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