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“Brazilian literature has a history of negative representation of black people,” says Esdras Soares, a teacher trainer and master’s student in comparative literature at the University of São Paulo (USP). According to him, this situation only began to change when black people began to produce their own narratives. “When they began to write their own books, we noticed a radical change in the representation of black characters,” he says. Hence the importance of talking about black or Afro-Brazilian literature. Learn more at: http://bit.ly/2PW6SAl