Juliano Fabricio Antunes
Professor
of history at the Municipal Network of Ijuí-RS. Master's
student at UFSM; antunes.julianof@gmail.com
.
Leila Aparecida de Ataides
Portuguese
language teacher at the Municipal Network of Ijuí-RS. Graduate student at Unifei; leila.ataides@gmail.com
.
ABSTRACT
This paper aims to discuss the contribution of literary reading to the
understanding of history. The book O sol da Liberdade by Giselda Laporta
Nicolelis, whose plot presents the history of eight generations of an African
family, since the loss of a dispute in Africa in which the sovereign of the
tribe and patriarch of the family commits suicide and his son, the prince is
sent as a slave to Brazil, until 1985, when the reader meets the
great-granddaughter of King Momo. While, generation after generation, the
narrator uncovers the soul of each character, the reader follows the history of
Brazil, marked by inequality, oppression, and racism. We highlight here the
course of the legislative process, from the Free Womb Law to Law 10639/03.
Keywords: History. racism. Literature. Resistance.
Reviewed by Current Scientific Journal
on
abril 08, 2023
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