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The Clash of the Races
Monteiro Lobato
Monteiro Lobato was one of Brazil's most imaginative writers. He is best known for his children's books about the bizarre adventures of a plucky little girl and her irreverent rag doll. But The Clash of the Races—the only novel he wrote for adult readers—takes an even wilder ride through Lobato's strange, intriguing perspective on humanity.
The story is set in Brazil, where a young man and woman use high-tech equipment to see into the future. They follow events in the United States in the year 2228 as Black and white voters vie to elect a president of their respective ethnicity. The run-up to the elections is close until a feminist candidate pits women against men regardless of race.
The story inevitably reflects some of the racism that was accepted as normal in the 1920s, when the book was written. At the same time, it opens racism to everyone's view as the fictional characters grapple with it.
And suddenly, a Black man becomes President of the United States. Hard to believe? Not almost a hundred years after the book was written. But three centuries later, from when Lobato tells the story, a Black president is simply not acceptable to whites.
And then things get ugly…
Ana Lessa-Schmidt's insightful and nuanced English translation of this Brazilian classic is being published for the first time. This novel shocked its readers in 1926, and it's even more shocking today. Depending on how one reads it, it is shocking because of the precision in predicting the future, it is shocking because of the warning it contains, it is shocking for so many more reasons… Whatever the case, the reader will not go through this work unscathed.
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