Produção Nacional
CONSTRUÇÃO DO MITO LUÍSA MAHIN A PARTIR DOS FRAGMENTOS DE MEMÓRIA DO LUIZ GAMA
2021; Volume: 4; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.29327/269579.4.1-15
ISSN2595-4911
AutoresSilnara Kelly Santos Faustino,
Tópico(s)Urban and sociocultural dynamics
ResumoThis article deals with the construction of Luísa Mahin, based on the records written by Luiz Gama, a self-taught intellectual of the 19th century.According to Luiz Gama himself, living with his mother took place in the first seven years of his fifty-two years.Due to the short time they were together, it is possible to assume that many of these reports were due to fragments of their memory.From the words of Gama, even without historical evidence, Mahin was born; a mother who was born of her own son.According to his own words, he was the son of a black African woman named Luísa Mahin, a strong and plural woman, who was a laborious grocer and also a revolutionary in slave insurrections.The richness of details, with which he describes his mother, generates, even without historical evidence, an effect of veracity and consequently a belief in his existence.In addition to the letter, she also appears in verses from some of Gama's poems, which also reveals her figure as an inspiration for her son, especially in the works in which she addresses her struggle for the abolition and liberation of enslaved blacks.The myth Luísa Mahin, today is evoked by the black movement, meeting a demand that seeks black protagonism in the history of the country, and in particular, the need to value black women in history.
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