Lima Barreto e a literatura como missão

Abstract

The social commitment assumed by Lima Barreto in his literature with his formerly enslaved brothers in the post-abolition period. His acidic and ambiguous vein when portraying the first republic. The inscription of himself through his fictional and critical writings. His commitment to thinking about literature that is affectionate and supportive of his similar. His place as a herald, still at the beginning of the 20th century, by taking a stand against scientific determinism imported from Europe, social racism and what would become later, in silent practices, in the pact veiled by whiteness.