Ethnic Love/Hate in the ineditos of Lima Barreto

Turn-of-the-century Brazilian fiction writer Lima Barreto is known as one of his nation's most im- portant mulatto authors. His four major novels and numerous short stories are charged with a consciousness of the drama of the mulatto in a society which emulates European patterns and places restrictions on its citi- zens of color. The sizeable corpus of diary entries and personal correspondence, published posthumously, has not enjoyed the same attention as his fictional works but provides valuable insights into his ethnic self- awareness. They document his pilgrimage from self-confident young man of color through progressive self- doubt, culminating in the frustration of an increasingly paranoid individual whose ethnic pride remains strong for the collectivity but tarnished on the personal level. Lima Barreto may be considered a metaphor for the Brazil of his day, caught at the crossroads of multi-ethnic reckoning as a new century dawns

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