Fourteenth International Conference on The Image

Abstract

This research identifies the city of “imagined Salvador”, present in the literary piece Um Defeito de Cor (A Flaw in Colour), by Ana Maria Gonçalves, as well as carrying out a study on family albums, understanding citizens’ imaginary in this city in contemporaneity. The city of Salvador of the XIX century, which is described in Um Defeito de Cor, is considered. In its turn, the imaginary of Salvador’s citizens, in the present century, is debated through the methodology of Family Album, proposed by Silva (2008). Based on this study, the experience of corporeality of diasporic black women in the city is analysed. Brazil has the most extensive territory of South America, and it was the last country in the world to abolish slavery. Salvador was established as the first capital of Brazil and, for about four centuries, it received African women and men in the context of slavery, while it was also the stage of important revolts and victories of the black population In Brazil.