Gamacopeia : ficções sobre o poeta Luiz Gama

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2004

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The poet Luiz Gama, a black man, was a slave and became an abolitionist. His history was first told in 1880 in a personal letter he sent to Lúciuo de Mendonça. In this letter, Gama seems to tell a history of life that follows the pattern of the traditional hero: the man who succeeded even after a series of difficulties and tragedies.This history was retold by Mendonça and other writers interested in the heroical character that it presents. Gama published only one book: Primeiras Trovas Burlescas de Getolino (1859 –1st edition – and 1861 – 2nd edition). Most of his critics expressed the wish of clearing up the biography of Gama through his poems, devoting to them a secondary importance. This work aims to underline the fictional strategies found in Gama’s poems that elaborated Gama’s history; to find evidence that the analysis of his poems were based on biographic interpretations and to show how the narratives about Gama’s life, in spite of sharing many similarities, were guided by different ideologies. This thesis claims that the lyric poetry, not only the satical one, is a component of Gama’s work and emphasizes the combination of popular and classic references in his poems and the fact that his poetic creation was defined by the addition rather than by the subtraction.

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