By reading Clarice Lispector's work of whiteness through concepts developed by Bessie Head and Toni Morrison, the author deals with the ways in which Lispector's texts raise questions concerning the relation of Brazil's African ethnic component to notions of what constitutes the Brazilian nation.
Critics consider Clarice Lispector the leading female writer in the Brazilian literary canon. Her connections with the nation, however, seem to magically disappear as her work is analysed.
