Clara dos Anjos: a marca de discursos excluídos em Lima Barreto

Abstract

This work aims to present to the academic community and to the specialized literary critics a critical reading of the novel Clara dos Anjos, investigating the style adopted by Lima Barreto as a mean of recovering the minority identity discourses or the excluded ones at the Brazilian society context in the early days of the Republic. Taking the great range of the researched subject into consideration, it was essential to use a theoretical framework that would bring different points of view from specialists of various areas of knowledge, in order to approach not only the fictional creation, as well as the Brazilian Society Portrait, which was the background of the novel. Therefore, aiming to support the theory of the research study it will be used as a multidisciplinary reference, the work of several authors like Stuart Hall, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Derrida, Florestan Fernandes, Afrânio Coutinho and Alfredo Bosi. From the theoretical framework proposed by the work of these specialists, was presented an overview of Clara dos Anjos novel, identifying aspects related to the creation and recovery of identity discourses which were historically excluded by an ideological hegemony present in Brazilian Society, related to the color of skin, social status and gender. In addition to this, it was discussed the occurrence of issues like identity, identity displacement and ethnic prejudice.