Black Fiction: Apollo or Dionysus?

1979 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Chester J. Fontenot
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1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Susan L. Blake ◽  
Keith E. Byerman
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1978 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-121
Author(s):  
Donald A. Petesch
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Author(s):  
DAVID BROOKSHAW

This chapter discusses the extent to which it is feasible to talk of a black Brazilian literary tradition that is somehow cohesive, conscious of itself and self-reflective. In looking at works by black fiction writers during the second half of the twentieth century, such as Romeu Crusoé, Oswaldo de Camargo, Cuti, Geni Guimarães, Marilene Felinto and Muniz Sodré, it suggests that writers of African descent who self-identify as black Brazilians are to a large extent bound by identification with region as much as they are with skin colour, in a similar way to other ‘ethnic’ writers in Brazil.


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