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Zumbi
Joel Rufino dos Santos, escritor, historiador e professor de pós-graduação da Faculdade de Letras da UFRJ e diretor de Comunicação do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, em seus livros para crianças e adolescentes, mais do que contar histórias, coloca questões pertinentes, para uma releitura crítica da nossa cultura popular, especialmente a negra e ameríndia. Em Zumbi, o autor narra de forma comovente e analítica a biografia do líder negro, a criação, a resistência e a destruição do quilombo de Palmares. Esta história começou há mais de cem anos. Numa noite qualquer do ano de 1597, quarenta escravos fugiam de um engenho no sul de Pernambuco. Fato corriqueiro. Escravos fugiam o tempo todo de todos os engenhos. O número é que parecia excessivo: quarenta de uma vez. Fora também insólito o que fizeram antes de optar pela fuga coletiva: armados de foices, chuços e cacetes, haviam massacrado a população livre da fazenda.
76 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2006
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Joel Rufino dos Santos
61 books8 followersJoel Rufino dos Santos, son of Pernambuco parents, was born in Rio de Janeiro, on June 19, 1941. Historian, novelist and intellectual committed to the black cause, his works were censored by the civil-military dictatorship of 1964. In December 1972, he was arrested and sent to the Hipódromo prison, in São Paulo. There, he remained a political prisoner for a year and a half, due to his activism in the National Liberation Action (ALN) – a clandestine organization that preached armed struggle against the regime.
After the Amnesty decreed in 1979, he resumed his academic activities. In the 1990s, he presided over the Palmares Foundation, where he established a closer relationship with the remaining quilombo communities and began work to recognize these communities. He also held the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of the death of Zumbi dos Palmares, which took place in União dos Palmares, in Serra da Barriga, in Alagoas.
He also served as Undersecretary of Defense and Promotion of Black Populations in Rio de Janeiro and a member of the Board of Directors of the Instituto de Estudos da Religião (ISER). He was a professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, teaching Literature and Social Communication courses. In recent years, he joined the staff of the State Court of Justice of Rio de Janeiro, as General Director of Communication and Knowledge Diffusion.
Throughout his career, he brought to the public a vast production, including historiographical writings, essays, biographies, novels, children's and young adult narratives, as well as textbooks. The thinker also embarked on dramaturgy: his signature was three plays and two miniseries for TV. His biography of Zumbi dos Palmares, aimed at young audiences, became a classic of the genre, with dozens of editions.
In 1979, Joel Rufino dos Santos was awarded the Jabuti Prize, with the book Uma Estranha Aventura em Talalai. In 2000, he won the Orígenes Lessa Award in the “Best for Young People” category, with Quando eu voltei, eu tive uma surpresa, poignant collection of letters written to his eight-year-old son when he was still imprisoned by the dictatorship. In 2008, he would win Jabuti again, with O barbeiro e o judeu da prestação contra o sargento da motocicleta. And he was also nominated for the most important honor in children's literature – the Hans Christian Andersen Prize – in 2004, 2006 and 2014.
The author passed away at the age of 73 on September 4, 2015, in Rio de Janeiro. A few days earlier, even with his health in poor health, he gained attention in the media when he saved the life of a young black man who was being lynched in broad daylight on a street in Copacabana. Joel Rufino dos Santos left an important legacy for posterity, whether through countless books aimed at readers of the most different ages and abilities, or through the example of an intellectual life guided by commitment to subordinates of all times and places. After his death, the originals of two unpublished novels were rescued - O Rio das Almas Flutuantes, which deals with the saga of African characters who were refugees in the interior of Bahia in the 19th century - and also O Amor e o Nada, whose plot explores the heavy environment of the civil-military dictatorship of 1964 in Rio de Janeiro. Both novels are published by Pallas.
After the Amnesty decreed in 1979, he resumed his academic activities. In the 1990s, he presided over the Palmares Foundation, where he established a closer relationship with the remaining quilombo communities and began work to recognize these communities. He also held the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of the death of Zumbi dos Palmares, which took place in União dos Palmares, in Serra da Barriga, in Alagoas.
He also served as Undersecretary of Defense and Promotion of Black Populations in Rio de Janeiro and a member of the Board of Directors of the Instituto de Estudos da Religião (ISER). He was a professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, teaching Literature and Social Communication courses. In recent years, he joined the staff of the State Court of Justice of Rio de Janeiro, as General Director of Communication and Knowledge Diffusion.
Throughout his career, he brought to the public a vast production, including historiographical writings, essays, biographies, novels, children's and young adult narratives, as well as textbooks. The thinker also embarked on dramaturgy: his signature was three plays and two miniseries for TV. His biography of Zumbi dos Palmares, aimed at young audiences, became a classic of the genre, with dozens of editions.
In 1979, Joel Rufino dos Santos was awarded the Jabuti Prize, with the book Uma Estranha Aventura em Talalai. In 2000, he won the Orígenes Lessa Award in the “Best for Young People” category, with Quando eu voltei, eu tive uma surpresa, poignant collection of letters written to his eight-year-old son when he was still imprisoned by the dictatorship. In 2008, he would win Jabuti again, with O barbeiro e o judeu da prestação contra o sargento da motocicleta. And he was also nominated for the most important honor in children's literature – the Hans Christian Andersen Prize – in 2004, 2006 and 2014.
The author passed away at the age of 73 on September 4, 2015, in Rio de Janeiro. A few days earlier, even with his health in poor health, he gained attention in the media when he saved the life of a young black man who was being lynched in broad daylight on a street in Copacabana. Joel Rufino dos Santos left an important legacy for posterity, whether through countless books aimed at readers of the most different ages and abilities, or through the example of an intellectual life guided by commitment to subordinates of all times and places. After his death, the originals of two unpublished novels were rescued - O Rio das Almas Flutuantes, which deals with the saga of African characters who were refugees in the interior of Bahia in the 19th century - and also O Amor e o Nada, whose plot explores the heavy environment of the civil-military dictatorship of 1964 in Rio de Janeiro. Both novels are published by Pallas.
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March 1, 2021
Informativo e gostoso de ler. O autor conduz a narrativa biográfica do herói, Zumbi dos Palmares, de uma forma cativante, sem perder a capacidade reflexiva. A leitura flui rápido e dá pra ler em uma tarde.
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