As ruínas do feminino: representações da mulata no alvorecer do século XX

Abstract

The present work has the pretension to study Lima Barreto in Clara dos Anjos (1922) in an approach on the black woman in the first years of Brazilian Republic. Its literary representation in the period, having as main character Clara dos Anjos being her, woman, poor and black. Bringing in discussion a socio-cultural baggage affected by prejudices and racist visions in which they endure until the present days displayed in new guises. The author presents the black character in her innocence and subordination before a male-centered society and just out of the slave regime, which carried an entire culture in which women begin to have a space before society but always ruled by the laws and good customs that the society imposed.