Fiction of Gay Interest

Bom-Crioulo
Adolfo Caminha
trans E A Lacey, intro Raul de Sá Barbosa
Publisher: Gay Sunshine Press
San Francisco, CA, USA

Year


 		1982 1st English Lang edition       
first publ Brazil: 1895
Cover / size: paperback / h 21.5 cm * w 14 cm / 141 pp

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN: 0917342887

Arbery Ref:   000974

Condition Good

Cover: spine unbroken; slight wear to edges, most noticeable along spine (tear at top), scratches and denting on back. Erased pencil inscriptions on half-title page. Pages otherwise clean.

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Caminha: Bom-Criouloo

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

"relates in naturalistic style the overt sexual relationship between a mature black man [Amaro, or Bom-Crioulo] and a boy of 15 [Aleixo] - a relationship which develops during their service together in the Brazilian Navy of the late 19th century.

"Bom-Crioulo remains a truly revolutionary work: revolutionary in its denunciation of slavery, sadism, cruelty and man's exploitation of man; revolutionary in its revelation of society's complicity, its conspiracy of silence regarding all these abuses; revolutionary in its startling attitudes toward homosexuality, towards race, towards interracial and interage contacts . . . Its message echoes beyond our time. (E A Lacey - translator) "

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Background / Biography:

Adolfo Ferreira Caminha (29 May 1867 — 1 January 1897) was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist. continued on Wikipedia





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"Meanwhile, Bom-Crioulo began to feel a twinge of sadness in his soul, a thing that rarely happened to him. He remembered the open seas, his first sighting of Aleixo, the new life he was about to begin, and he worried above all about keeping the cabin-boy's friendship, about the future of that affection which had been born on the trop and which was threatened now by the contingencies of naval service. In less than twenty-hours Aleixo might be transferred to some other ship - who knows?, he himself, Bom-Crioulo, might not continue serving on the corvette.

Instinctively, his eyes would seek out the boy, alight with a jealous desire to see him always, forever, nearby there, living the same life of work and obedience, growing up a his side like a beloved, inseperable brother. "

p 63




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