Insights into the social circumstances of the rural workers in the novel Crooked Plough (2022), by the Bahian writer Itamar Vieira Júnior
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https://doi.org/10.48075/ri.v26i1.31920Keywords:
Itamar Vieira Júnior; Trabajador rural; Realidad quilombola; Lucha por la tierra.Abstract
This paper aims to reflect on the social circumstances of farm workers, heirs to more than three hundred years of slavery, based on the main protagonists of the novel Arado torcido, by Bahian writer Itamar Vieira Júnior. In this work, the writer brings to light the realities of the inhabitants of Água Negra, a fictitious farm made up of a Quilombola population who, like many of our ancestors, survive in conditions analogous to slavery, working day and night in exchange for survival. They are children and adults who carry with them the deep marks of a past that has had dire consequences to this day, but who learn to dream and are capable of taking up the struggle for a better world. On the other hand, the author highlights the importance of the struggle for the land and for human dignity, using his literature as a vehicle for social transformation. All of this with the intention of helping to ensure that the same mistakes of the past are not repeated.
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