O intertexto bíblico na construção de Suema ou a pequena escrava enterrada viva

Abstract

Sitemci o the Little Slave Girl Buried Alive tells the story of a child(Suema) who was sold into slavery as payment for a debt owed by her mother. Alone and unwilling to part with her daughter, she begs her daughter's buyer to take her with him. But distressed and dying with her new situation, resulting from the death of her husband and other children and the condition of slaves in which they found themselves (mother and daughter) and no longer strong enough to continue walking, the lady was left to die on the caravan route and the vultures did the rest. Having seen her mother devoured by the vultures, Suema got into a constant fight with her transporters (other slaves), causing many embarrassments for the caravan leader, which culminated in his decision to have her buried alive, after being wrapped up and tied to a mat, to die a painful death. The story ends with Suema 's salvation from death(by a wolf hunter who heard her muffled cries) and her conversion to Christianity. After reading the text, the dialogical nature that it establishes with the Bible stands out to anyone, hence our choice of theme: "The Biblical Intertext in the Construction of Suema or the Little Slave Girl Buried Alive". According to data in our possession, the recording of Suema's memoirs in Cinyungwe and the translation of half the text were done by the Swiss Jesuit missionary Víctor Curtois in 1890 and the other half (completed on August 10, 1936) by an individual named José Baltazar da Costa. This work aims to analyze the technical-literary procedures related to autobiographical writing and biblical and other intertextuality. (TRADUÇAO NOSSA)