Politics of Death in the Fiction of José do Patrocínio
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José do Patrocínio, blackness, slavery, death penalty, hate crimeAbstract
In 1877, writer and journalist José do Patrocínio published Motta Coqueiro or The Death Penalty, a fictional protest against the death penalty. By fictionalizing the facts around the story of “The Beast of Macabu”, Patrocínio produced a narrative considered proto-naturalist, and ideologically committed to the racial theories of the time. However, this article proposes an alternative reading, which argues that, despite being a product of late nineteenth-century Brazilian thinking, Patrocínio’s book is critical of entrenched attitudes about racial difference.
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