A noite dos cristais, de Luís Fulano de Tal: discursos afro-brasileiros na literatura juvenil

Abstract

The youth novel A noite dos cristais (1999), by Luís Fulano de Tal, deals with the social tensions surrounding slavery in Brazil in the first half of the 19th century and their repercussions today. The city of Salvador is scrutinized from the point of view of Gonçalo, a black boy who is born free but is arbitrarily enslaved by the authorities of his time, and also from the point of view of a narrator who is situated in 1995, the “Three Hundredth Year of Zumbi dos Palmares’ Struggle”. Thus, this work aims to analyze the mishaps of the two narrators of the novel, both marked by the stigma of racial prejudice. Studies by Eliane Debus (2018), Jesebeabe Mendonça Calixto (2023), Uruguay Cortazzo (2018), among others, will be used to problematize the representations of black people in youth literature.