O conto afro-brasileiro de Lima Barreto: o narrar interno e o protagonista negro nas primeiras décadas do século XX

Abstract

Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881-1922) was writer of Brazil. Grandson of enslaved and son of freedmen., the writer was one of the first authors of Brazilian literature to recognize himself and define himself as black literati. (BROOKSHAW, 1983. CUTI, 2011). Lima Barreto broke the prejudices of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with its innovative prose and with its acidic and combative style. From the perspective of Luis Silva (Cuti) (2010, 2011), Eduardo de Assis Duarte (2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2020), Conceição Evaristo (2005, 2009, 2011, 2020) and Maria Nazareth Soares Fonseca (2006, 2014), and other Afrodescendant critics and researchers from the Barreto’s literature this academic paper analyzes 4 short stories by the author: “Um especialista” (1904) e “Clara dos Anjos” (1920), “O moleque” (1920), “O pecado” (1924) discusses how Lima Barreto constructs Afro-Brazilian characters from the point of view of the black subject (DUARTE 2013).