Cartas para minha mãe, de Teresa Cárdenas: racismo e resistência na voz de uma literata negra

The aim of this work is to analyze racism from the perspective main character —a child, black and orphaned— novel Cartas para minha mãe, by contemporary Cuban writer Teresa Cárdenas. narrative develops around a who did not have what we call childhood today, thus enters adolescence. However, our focus will be on condition narrator, at all times suffers most diverse types prejudices, in addition having deal with difficult phase: transition puberty. In way, intends discuss issues involving surrounded prejudices Cárdenas' novel, while observe reactions perceptions child face racism. For analysis narrator's childhood, historical contextualization colonization process Latin America psychosocial feeling inferiority blacks superiority white, use texts following scholars: Cabo Aseguinolaza (2001); Ariès (1981); Fanon (2008); Gates (2014) Souza (2015), among other theoretical texts. end, realized that Cárdenas weight leads narrator seek help letters she writes her dead mother. present text builds as sample several people go through every day their lives.