Das prateleiras da Alcidiana : os livros, a leitura e a escrita na trajetória intelectual de Alcides Cruz

Abstract

This work has the goal to reflect on how the book collection owned by Alcides de Freitas Cruz (1867-1916), a black professor and lawyer born in Porto Alegre, contributed to his Intelectual trajectory. In order to do that, this reflection is based on the uses and symbolic representations of his library, as well as his textual production. With this proposal, this research covers the titles of the book collection of that character, the Alcidiana, made available by their summary description in Cruz’s post mortem inventory, comparing the possible Intelectual inspirations that contributed to the formation of Cruz’s world visions, and that culminated in studies as the literary critics and the Historiographical production. The uses of the library also allowed a glimpse to Alcides Cruz’s positioning in relation to the social discourses guided by the racialization – here delimitated by the time period between the nineteenth and the twenteeth century – mainly due to ideas that are present in many of the books in the collection and to their consequently handling made by the character of their texts.