Literatura e direitos humanos: uma crítica social em Os Brutos de José Bezerra Gomes

Abstract

Beginning with the principle that literature is a symbolic system of inter-human communication, that has a mobilize function and thus aggregate political consequences. In this work, we pretend problematize the relation of history,literature and human rights from the book OsBrutos(1938) of José Bezerra Gomes (1911-1982). The mentioned work aims to identify the aspects of the narrative that portray the society and the local culture, with focused in the social criticism elaborated by the author. José Bezerra Gomes is part of a generation of writers and literary segment (literature of 1930),that had as a esthetic element, commitment to the truth of the facts and the commitment to expose and denounce the marginalization form social inequalities.Accordingly making him a protagonist of the fight for human rights.