'Pretos e Brancos': Brito Camacho and the antropological gaze of colonial literature
In this article I explore the connections between colonial literature and anthropology during the first decades of the twentieth century. Through the analysis of Brito Camacho’s Pretos e Brancos (1926), I argue that some of the literary works that won the Contest of Colonial Literature are imbued w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Federal Fluminense
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Abril |
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| Online Access: | http://www.revistaabril.uff.br/index.php/revistaabril/article/view/494 |
| Summary: | In this article I explore the connections between colonial literature and anthropology during the first decades of the twentieth century. Through the analysis of Brito Camacho’s Pretos e Brancos (1926), I argue that some of the literary works that won the Contest of Colonial Literature are imbued with an anthropologic gaze. By this, I mean that colonial literature and anthropology were constituted as two intertwined colonial “knowledges” from the beginning of the colonial project. Both “knowledges” -literary and anthropological- served the objective of the construction and legitimization of the Portuguese colonial empire. |
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| ISSN: | 1984-2090 |