I discovered his poem “A Cachoeira de Paulo Affonso,” and it is incredibly weird.
I also discovered a book that discusses Castro Alves, about five years old, from WVUP.
I have to re-find and re-study all of this. Of course the enslaved woman’s rapist is the half-brother of her enslaved beloved. It’s an inversion of Cecilia Valdés. Why they commit suicide rather than take revenge is to be studied at several levels.
Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna talks about how mulata women come to be viewed as “edible.” “Mas, adaptando a terminologia de Melanie Klein, os seios mestiços da mulata são, ao mesmo tempo, o bem e o mal, o seio bom e o seio ruim, e o senhor escravocrata dela se aproxima ambiguamente, querendo incorporar uma parte e destruir outra,” he says (26).
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 