City of god among the history and literature: racial problem in Rio de Janeiro (1960-1980)

Authors

  • Claércio Ivan Schneider UNICENTRO
  • Camila Biranoski Unicentro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-8951.2014v15n106p27

Abstract

This study analysis a novel wrote by Paulo Lins: “City of God” seeking to understand the relationship between literature and history in an attempt to investigate the subject of racial prejudice in Rio de Janeiro, more specifically in the housing complex called “City of God”. In other words, one of the main goals of this paper is to identify in this literary source the representations of the reality of a given period and historical context in which Lins talks about the marginalization, the exclusion and the racial prejudice, based on the social relations of the inhabitants of the complex.

Author Biographies

Claércio Ivan Schneider, UNICENTRO

Professor adjunto do Departamento de História da Unicentro, Campus de Irati-Pr.

 

Camila Biranoski, Unicentro

Licenciada em História pela UNICENTRO

Published

2014-07-04

Issue

Section

Articles