Back to Blog
O Bom-Crioulo by Adolfo Caminha6/23/2023 While many view the novel as a positive example of social progress in Brazil, it is widely regarded as propaganda with a central message declaring "não há lugar para a existência do negro e do homossexual que não o gueto ou a morte", which in English means "there is no place for the existence of the black man nor the homosexual if not the ghetto or in death". In the second half of the 20th century, the novel has been republished several times in Brazil and translated into English, Spanish, German, French and Italian. The novel caused a stir upon its publication but was almost forgotten in the first half of the 20th century. The novel, whose narrative follows the character Amaro, an ex-slave who works for the Navy and who, at a given moment, falls in love with the young cabin boy Aleixo, was the first major literary work on homosexuality to be published in Brazil, and one of the first to have a black person as its hero. O Bom Crioulo: edição revista e anotada (Portuguese Edition) Caminha, Adolfo on. Lacey was published in 1982 by Gay Sunshine. Bom-Crioulo: The Black Man and the Cabin Boy ( Portuguese: Bom-Crioulo) is a novel by the Brazilian writer Adolfo Caminha, first published in 1895.
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |