Representando a resistência negra no Brasil: originalidade e limites de Um defeito de cor, de Ana Maria Gonçalves (original) (raw)

With a poetics based on African cultural transplant, Ana Maria Gonçalves carries out in "Um defeito de cor" the titanic task of recounting Brazilian black resistance from a feminine and black point of view. In the report of a former octogenarian Jeje nation slave, the monumental breath of the novel fulfills a thorough experience of native cultures, incorporating lexicons of trafficked ethnic groups and totemic rituals, in an attempt to represent the importance of such a legacy for black integration in Brazil. The originality that emerges therefrom is capable of contradicting one of the Brazilian critical sociology milestones, the thesis "A integração do negro na sociedade de classes", by Florestan Fernandes. This fundamental complementation to consecrated historiographies on Afro-Brazilian populations depends on the possibilities of the fictional record, which, however, are obstructed by conservative formal choices that limit, without annulling it, the literary power of the work.

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