Resistance strategies as discursive power in Lima Barreto’s literature

In this article, we propose a reflection on how (anti)racist discourses manifest themselves in language, especially in Lima Barreto's literary production. Using Foucauldian Discursive Studies (EDF) as a basis and in dialogue with Literary Studies, we analyzed excerpts from the author's works "Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma" (2015) and "Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha" (2010), seeking to identify and report racist practices from the beginning of the 20th century and understand how they resist and persist today. Considering the literary text as a space for the materialization of discourses, the next topic proposes an analysis of the enunciative excerpts of Lima Barreto's works mentioned, exploring the controversial themes addressed by the author within the historical context in which they were written. Furthermore, the analyzes and data obtained will be used to reflect on possible connections with the present and the discourses of (dis)continuity of this literary object.