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One More Story: Racial Relations and Stereotypes in Brazilian Literature

This article will examine the way relations between Whites and Blacks are presented in Brazilian written expression. From the beginning of the twentieth century, Brazilian society projected around itself, both within and without, an image of a society free from any racial discrimination. However, this image was, and continues to be, a strategy devised to maintain white hegemony. Activists and researchers have pointed out, in particular since the end of the 1970s, the profound inequalities that continue to exist between Whites on the one hand and Blacks and indigenous people on the other. The myth of a multi-racial democracy has lost its hold in Brazil, at least in the universities and in public discourse. Yet both old and new ways of producing and reproducing racial inequalities still persist. We will attempt to identify in this article how both Brazilian adult and children’s literature have sustained and brought into the present the ‘Prospero complex’1 of the colonial period. We will take as our point of departure the courage, disobedience and love for life of Sheherazade.