The resemantization of black gaucho literature

Abstract

The black community was underrepresented in Brazilian literature in the past and had its history interpreted by the understanding of white people, suffering an interposition in its discursiveness, which relegated these individuals to severe silencing as a consequence of racism. In this article, data are analyzed showing re-signification of literary narratives that represent aspects experienced by this collective, as well as black authorship and predication. Through an exploratory methodology, which considered both quantitative and qualitative aspects, it was possible to know a new emerging literary scene in Rio Grande do Sul, as a result of the resistance of this ethnic stratum. The contemporary representation of these subjects marks a fictionalized social re-elaboration, responding to the demands of new readers who wish to see themselves humanized, having their stories told by those who live this reality and can legitimately speak about the topic. Recent investments in public policies, aimed at the emancipation of this group, have provided a social re-signification that produced the so-desired feeling of protagonism. These findings were observed from the analysis of the Gaucho literature produced by black authors in the first two decades of this century.