SLAVE ECHOES: A READING OF OITEIRO, BY MAGDALENA ANTUNES

UMA LEITURA DO LIVRO OITEIRO, DE MAGDALENA ANTUNES

Abstract

Oiteiro, is a memorial book, by Magdalena Antunes, a writer from Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil). Oiteiro is a literary and ethnographic document that reveals the face of the turn of the 19th to the 20th century and has as show us the final years of slavery in Brazil. The purpose of this paper is to make a critical and contextualized reading of slavery in this book, especially with regard to black women slaves. In order to paper this objective, the thinking and contribution of authors such as Calvin Schermerhorn (2020), Conceição Evaristo (2020), Elio Ferreira de Souza (2015), Enrique Peregalli (2001), Luiz Silva Cuti (2010), and others authors. The methodology applied in this paper is bibliographic research with an exploratory qualitative approach (Gil, 2002). At the end of this paper, stands out the importance of more points of view about slavery in Brazil.