O ALIENISTA - PELAS LENTES DE GILBERTO FREYRE E OLIVEIRA VIANNA

Authors

  • Kathrin H.Rosenfield

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48075/rt.v7i13.5213

Abstract

In O Alienista , Machado de Assis refers ironically to the reforms occurred between 1845 and the 1880 decade (the recognition of Bill Aberdeen, the 1871 law which freed children born of slave parents- Law of Free Birth, Portuguese, Lei do Ventre Livre) and the Abolitionist Confederation (1883). However, to the reader with little knowledge of the particularities of the Brazilian society from the 19th century and of the social progress in the Second Empire, it is not easy to comprehend the subtleties of the lurches of Machado’s ironies, nor what Simão Bacamarte would represent in the social context at that time. The present paper aims to trace the camouflaged social and political critics that hides behind the plot apparently simple of the mentioned short story.

Published

17-05-2016

How to Cite

H.ROSENFIELD, K. O ALIENISTA - PELAS LENTES DE GILBERTO FREYRE E OLIVEIRA VIANNA. Trama, Marechal Cândido Rondon, v. 7, n. 13, p. 89–104, 2016. DOI: 10.48075/rt.v7i13.5213. Disponível em: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/trama/article/view/5213. Acesso em: 17 aug. 2024.

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ARTIGO