De Allan Kardec a Chico Xavier: uma visão histórica das poesias e dos romances mediúnicos

Abstract

This paper prints a historical look on mediumship literary productions represented by poems and novels. It wants to retrieve the discussions, debates and controversies that materialized around these forms from the Codification of Spiritism by Allan Kardec, in France, until the emergence of medium Chico Xavier in the Brazilian spiritualist scenario. Therefore, bibliographic sources have been used such as the Spiritist Magazine, founded by Kardec and the issues of the Reformador magazine, the official communication organ of the Brazilian Spiritist Federation, among others. The work, by highlighting Allan Kardec and Chico Xavier as the pillars for a historical reconstruction we set, offers a unique reinterpretation of the history of mediumship literature, from France to Brazil. The discussions raised in the thesis, because of the outbreak of mediumship literature, intend to contribute to the spread of the theme, since there are few existing studies about this type of literature. We seek out the discussions, disputes and controversies around the literature from beyond the grave in order to ratify this literature as a subject of study by the academy.