A autoficção no conto a maior flor do mundo, de josé saramago

Abstract

This research sought to investigate the life and production of Manuel Querino and his look at Africans and their descendants in the formation of Brazil’s identity. Querino problematized the racial imaginary of that moment and differentiated himself by presenting the black as a source of work, and development of Brazil. Our thinker lived at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century and sought to deconstruct the image of inferiority of the black at that moment from the valorization and its protagonist in the construction of Brazilian society. The general objective was to recognize the negro as the main agent in the construction of the country through the analysis of Manuel Querino's "The Black Colonist as a Factor of Brazilian Civilization" (1918). And the specific objectives were: to investigate views on the racial issue present in Brazil; seek interpretations that break with the pre-concept present in Brazil at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries; to understand the dynamics of the construction of the identity of the "black being" recognizing it as the main source of work for the development of Brazil. Thus, this work is justified by recognizing the black as the main subject in the colonization of Brazil, it was also a continuous realization of a work of scientific initiation that I had during teaching specifically in the year 2016. The method adopted for the construction of the work refers to the qualitative and bibliographic form. As a theoretical basis and data collection instrument we used the analysis of texts, published articles and books by authors such as: Munanga (2004), Luca (2001), Leal (2016), Glendhill (2008), among others