Lima Barreto e a questão racial: uma análise do negro na obra Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha e no conto Clara dos Anjos

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the work of Lima Barreto Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha and the short story Clara dos Anjos, by the same author. The perspective of these two ritings aims to demonstrate how racial issues are within Lima Barreto’s literary collection, taking into account his personal life and, above all, the context in wich this author inserted, wich is Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the century XIX to the XX century. Historically and socially, this moment is marked by the abolition of slavery in 1888, the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889 and an urban reconfiguration in the city of Rio de Janeiro from 1904 onwards with the engineer and mayor Pereira Passos, where the black population that ended up after being freed with the end of slavery, she is placed on the margins of society. Therefore, these will be the aspects that this article will cover, using literature to carry out a historical-social analysis of the beginning of the 20th century in the federal capital of the new Republic that was born