MEMORIES OF THE BAHIA SLAVE OF THE XIX CENTURY IN UM DEFEITO DE COR
Enslavement; History; Memory; Resistance
This work aims to analyze the novel Um Defeito de Cor (2006) by Ana Maria Gonçalves in order to identify how fictionally enslavement is represented in 19th century Bahia. Due to systematic attempts to erase the slave period, at the same time as attempts to slow down the violence of this dark blemish in the history of humanity, there is a need to pay attention to the discourses aimed at showing this covert side. Um Defeito de Cor it is inserted in this perspective, because from the memories of the main character, there is the resignification of the historical period that was built by the colonizer's version, bringing to light centuries of silence. Its Narrative is configured as an important material of political, social and cultural analysis of black peoples, and, although it is a fictional work, its characters reflect a whole context of conflicts, personal, collective and social organization desires and social organization afro-Brazilians. It is necessary to point out that this work does not stop at the reflection of the barbarism itself of this period, which is already sufficiently known to us, but in the strategies of survival and resistance that the characters have used, either through revolts individual and collective, leakage, Quilombo formation, etc. For a better comprehension of the novel and its intersection between history and fiction, I used the concept of historiographical metafiction, employed to define the fictional novel that is based on historical facts for the construction of its plot: these narratives use parts of history as elements of the narrative, but do not necessarily have the same commitment to the real that an official historiographical research would have.