Um diálogo com Clara dos Anjos: preconceito e denúncia social em Lima Barreto

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze the novel Clara dos Anjos, by Lima Barreto, based on the formation of the protagonist character from the social conflicts like violence and woman, whose author, who belongs to the transitional movement in literature known as Premodernism, break with the language of those who lived with these events. Premodernism is a period marked by the transition between literary schools and has no standard features among works. However, Lima Barreto is one of the authors concerned with the racial question and the sociocultural difficulties experienced in Brazil, which are presented in the novel that we are analyzing. The author fits in the literature for representing denunciation of inequality, racism and prejudice as aesthetic categories. In the novel, we analyze how the narrator stars a black, innocent character who faces prejudice, social inequality, violence against women and abandonment, counterpoint the expected social conditions of a woman at the time. It was tried to present, from the analysis of the work, and the research around the life of the author, in which way Lima Barreto represents in the literature the denunciations of prejudice in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. To base our research theoretically, we take as base the studies of Barbosa (1981), Bosi (1983), Shwarcz (2017), Munanga (1999).