Miriam Alves E a Literatura Afro-Brasileira Concepções Críticas

Miriam Alves contributed exponentially to the adequate valuation of Afro-Brazilian literature and its representativeness in this area and other similar spaces.From a very early age, the awareness of her family of simple and marginalized origins on these subjects, helped her to always seek literary training and criticality based on her, which contributed to the works she would later participate in, such as Cadernos Negros and several periodicals destined for black literature in the twentieth century.Under these conditions, Alves develops herself as an important writer within Afro-Brazilian and feminine Literature and participates in their constitution, giving her contribution in her much debated definitions, according to the author, this type of literature is one that strives to build a writing that is not only the expression of people of African descent as agents of culture and art, but that points to the discrimination that excludes them from the world of letters.From there, this study seeks to discuss in detail about the author's life and work and analyze her critical thinking about Afro-Brazilian literature.For this, the theoretical substrate uses writers such as Eduardo de Assis Duarte (2011), Rodrigo da Rosa Pereira (2016), Zilá Bernd (2011) and in the extensive list of publications by Miriam Alves.From this, it is noted that the writer seeks to show that the role of the Afro-Brazilian writer goes beyond writing, occupying the role of interpreters and spokespeople of the yearnings

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