JOSÉ DE ALENCAR

A MAN OF HIS TIME

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Abstract

This article aims to introduce the writer José de Alencar as a man of his time, that is, a personality who lived according to the dictates of the 19th century, not being an avant-garde man, fan of progressive ideas and conceptions. In order to do so, we present a brief biography of Alencar, in addition to the analyses of a chronicle (1854) and the novel A Pata da Gazela (1870), which illustrate the life of the elite in the city of Rio de Janeiro, at the end of the 19th century, and mirror some of the ideas and preferences of the writer, which composed what we call here a “literacy of being brazilian”. This article is based, in addition to texts and paratexts authored by Alencar himself, writings by Borges (2003, 2005), Bosi (2017), Candido (1981, 1997, 2015), Menezes (1977), Schwarcz (1983), Freitas (2003), Trindade and Bernsts (2017), Pereira (2000), among others.

Author Biographies

  • Ana Paula Almeida Bezerra Barros, State University of Feira de Santana

    Graduated in Law from UFBA (1991)

    Professor at the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the State University of Feira de Santana

    Master's student in Literary Studies at the State University of Feira de Santana

  • Alana de Oliveira Freitas El-Fahl, State University of Feira de Santana

    Graduated in Vernacular Letters from the State University of Feira de Santana (1997)

    Full Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at the State University of Feira de Santana

    Post-Doctor at the Federal University of Bahia on the relationship between Telenovela and Literature of the 19th century (2018/2019)

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Published

2022-12-05

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Vol. 11 (2022)

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Dossiê Escrever o século XIX

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JOSÉ DE ALENCAR: A MAN OF HIS TIME. Muitas Vozes, [S. l.], v. 11, 2022. Disponível em: https://revistas.uepg.br/index.php/muitasvozes/article/view/20693. Acesso em: 30 apr. 2026.