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This article examines the Afrodescendant literature in Brazil today. According to scholars, Latin America was created, on the one hand, by a modern/colonial project, and on the other hand, identity specifications are still on debate. So, it is important to examine Afrodescendant literature as representative of silenced cultures, who, in this context, write of themselves. In the reading and in the analysis of literary texts from Afrobrazilian authors, I demonstrate that metalanguage and intertextuality with literature and history are some aspects of this production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article discusses the concepts of black literature and Afro-Brazilian literature from the existing debates in Brazilian history and literary criticism, taking as a reference the production of Afro-descendent authors from the 19th and 20th centuries. Also, it tries to estabilish a group of elements that, once reunited, may present references of distinction that provide the especificity of the Afro-Brazilian literature in contrast with Brazilian mainstream literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The novel O Crime do Padre Amaro is analyzed with special reference to the relationships between its creation and the process of aesthetic and political sensitiveness that underscored Eça de Queiroz's literary productions. The novel is discussed as to its configurations and meanings, as a product and a producer of contradictions inherent to the debate on liberalism and Catholicism in Portugal in the second half of the 19th century. The adaptations made throughout the several issues of the novel, the plot and its reception by critics in the 19th century are investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]