O negro no romance romântico: vozes insurgentes e subalternas das personagens em Úrsula, de Maria Firmina dos Reis

Abstract

This work intends to analyze how the black subject is represented in the novel Úrsula (1859), by Maria Firmina dos Reis, which establishes Afro-Brazilian literature, through committed writing to giving voice to those who have been silenced for centuries. As well as, it intends to investigate how the theme of the black diaspora and the black subject/enslaved is characterized through writing in 19th-century novels. The bibliographic methodology was adopted in this work, in which it promotes a discussion about how these works, circumscribed in the Brazilian literary canon, represented black characters in a stereotyped way from a colonial perspective, in which they were not conferred to the speech because they were portrayed as the Other and not as subjects, they were, therefore, texts that met the desires of hegemonic groups. Firminian writing promotes rethinking, redefining spaces that were not previously granted to black voices and takes decolonizing trough the literary context of the 19th century. As a theoretical basis was used Bosi (2006), Bloom (1995), Proença Filho (2004), Miranda (2019), Schwarcz (2019), Marques (2018), Kilomba (2019), among others.