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Eliana Alves Cruz's 2018 novel Água de Barrela recounts the author's own family saga, from the arrival of her African ancestors in Brazil to the present day. Conceição Evaristo's narratives of contemporary Brazil underscore that the wounds of slavery are still very much unhealed. This study explores the capacity of literature to counter the selective empathy promoted by Brazilian media in their handling of Afro-Brazilian topics. It opens with a brief historical introduction, then turns to the relationship between media representation and structural racism in Brazilian society. It then sets out to analyse the political scope of the two authors, who both weave the idea of reparation into their work, suggesting that the Afro-Brazilian community should seek to enter sites of power and decision-making from which they have historically been excluded.
Pauline Champagnat (Mon,) studied this question.