Bom-Crioulo: The Black Man and the Cabin Boy (Portuguese: Bom-Crioulo) is a novel by the Brazilian writer Adolfo Caminha, first published in 1895. Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld Adolfo Ferreira Caminha, more commonly known as Adolfo Caminha, is an Brazilian writer who was born in Aracati city state of Ceará, on The year 1895 in literature involved some significant new books An English translation by E. A. Lacey was published in 1982 by Gay Sunshine.
The novel was the first major literary work on homosexuality to be published in Brazil, and one of the first to have a black person as its hero. Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation. The term black people usually refers to a racial group of Humans with dark Skin color, but the term has also been used to categorise a number of diverse The novel caused a stir upon its publication but was almost forgotten in the first half of the 20th century. In the second half of the 20th century, the novel has been republished several times in Brazil and translated into English, Spanish, German and French.
External links
- Bom-Crioulo (Portuguese)
References
Robert Howes Race and Transgressive Sexuality in Adolfo Caminha's "Bom-Crioulo", Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 38, No. 1. (Summer, 2001), pp. 41-62.
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